First report of the spinel + quartz assemblage from Kodaikanal in the Madurai block, southern India: Implications for ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism

International Geology Review

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1050-1068

  Tadokoro, Hiroyuki ^a   Tsunogae, Toshiaki ^a   Santosh, M ^b   Yoshimura, Yasutaka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GARNET; GNEISS; P-T CONDITIONS; QUARTZ; SPINEL; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; KODAIKANAL; MADURAI; SOUTH ASIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 36048982887     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0020-6814.49.11.1050     Document Type: Article

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