Comment on "First report of garnet-corundum rocks from southern India: Implications for prograde high-pressure (eclogite-facies?) metamorphism"

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 249, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 529-534

  Kelsey, D E ^a   Clark, C ^a   Hand, M ^a   Collins, A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORUNDUM; ECLOGITE; FACIES ANALYSIS; GARNET; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHISM;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 33749074927     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.07.048     Document Type: Note

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