Conodont palaeothermometry of contact metamorphism in Middle ordovician rocks from the precordillera of western Argentina

Geological Magazine

Volumn 145, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 449-462

  Voldman, Gustavo G ^a   Albanesi, Guillermo L ^a   Do Campo, Margarita ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL CENTRO DE LA PROVINCIA DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; CAI; Clay mineralogy; Conodont; Contact metamorphism; Ordovician; Precordillera

Indexed keywords

CLAY ALTERATION; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PETROLOGY; TEXTURES; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ARGENTINA; CLAY MINERALOGY; CONODONT; CONTACT METAMORPHISM; ORDOVICIAN; PRECORDILLERA;

CLAY MINERALS;

AUREOLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONODONT; CONTACT METAMORPHISM; CONTACT ZONE; GREENSCHIST FACIES; LOW GRADE METAMORPHISM; METASOMATISM; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PETROGRAPHY; THERMAL ALTERATION; TURBIDITE;

ARGENTINA; PRECORDILLERA; SAN JUAN [ARGENTINA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

CROTON OVALIFOLIUS; LENODUS VARIABILIS; PAROISTODUS HORRIDUS;

EID: 46749139514     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001675680800455X     Document Type: Article

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