Omphacite breakdown reactions and relation to eclogite exhumation rates

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 253-277

  Anderson, Eric D ^a   Moecher, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ca Eskola; Eastern Blue Ridge; Eclogite; Hornblende quartz exsolution; Isothermal decompression; Omphacite; P T path; Reintegration; Retrograde; Symplectite; Western Gneiss Region

Indexed keywords

CLINOPYROXENE; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; EXSOLUTION; GRAIN BOUNDARY; HORNBLENDE; OMPHACITE; P-T-T PATH; PLAGIOCLASE; QUARTZ; RETROGRADE METAMORPHISM; SYMPLECTITE;

APPALACHIANS; BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN GNEISS REGION;

EID: 34547633326     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-007-0192-x     Document Type: Article

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