Empirical garnet-biotite-plagioclase-quartz (GBPQ) geobarometry in medium- to high-grade metapelites

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1907-1921

  Wu, Chun Ming ^a   Zhang, Jian ^a   Ren, Liu Dong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Applicability; Calibration; Geobarometry; Metapelite

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; GEOBAROMETRY; METAPELITE; P-T CONDITIONS;

EID: 4544223703     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egh038     Document Type: Article

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