Corundum + quartz and Mg-staurolite bearing granulite from the Limpopo Belt, southern Africa: Implications for a P-T path

Lithos

Volumn 92, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 576-587

  Tsunogae, Toshiaki ^a,b   van Reenen, Dirk D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Corundum + quartz; Garnet + corundum; Granulite; Limpopo Belt; Magnesian staurolite; Southern Africa

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; COLLISION ZONE; CORUNDUM; DEHYDRATION MELTING; ECLOGITE; GRANULITE; HIGH PRESSURE; MELT INCLUSION; OROGENY; P-T-T PATH; PROGRADATION; QUARTZ; STAUROLITE; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM;

AFRICA; KAAPVAAL CRATON; LIMPOPO BELT; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 33749060848     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2006.03.052     Document Type: Article

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