Challenges in high-pressure granulite metamorphism in the era of pseudosections: Reaction textures, compositional zoning and tectonic interpretation with examples from the Bohemian Massif

Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 235-251

  O'Brien, P J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Clinopyroxene bearing granulite; Disequilibrium; High pressure granulite; Mesoperthite; Reaction texture

Indexed keywords

CLINOPYROXENE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CONTINENTAL CRUST; DISEQUILIBRIUM; GEODYNAMICS; GRANULITE; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHISM; OMPHACITE; P-T CONDITIONS; PETROGRAPHY; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TEXTURE; ZONING;

BOHEMIAN MASSIF; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 39049083879     PISSN: 02634929     EISSN: 15251314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2007.00758.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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