Quartz exsolutions in omphacites of ultrahigh pressure metamorphic rocks from CCSD and its significance of geodynamics

Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition)

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1904-1910

  Liang, Jinlong ^a   Sun, Xiaoming ^a,b   Xu, Li ^a   Zhai, Wei ^a   Tang, Qian ^a   Liang, Yeheng ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

CCSD; Eclogite; Exsolutions; Geodynamics; Omphacite; Quartz

Indexed keywords

CHINESE CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLING PROJECT; ECLOGITE; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; EXSOLUTION; GEODYNAMICS; OMPHACITE; QUARTZ; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

EID: 34047134629     PISSN: 10009515     EISSN: 17556724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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