Petrology and metamorphic P-T conditions of eclogites from the northern Veporic Unit (Western Carpathians, Slovakia)

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 121-131

  Janák, Marian ^a   Méres, Štefan ^b   Ivan, Peter ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Eclogite; High pressure metamorphism; Omphacite; Retrogression; Western Carpathians

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLE; AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; CLINOPYROXENE; ECLOGITE; GEOTHERMOMETRY; GRANULITE FACIES; GREENSCHIST FACIES; MINERALIZATION; P-T CONDITIONS; PETROLOGY; RETROGRADE METAMORPHISM;

CARPATHIANS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 34250000880     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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