Chloritoid-bearing mineral assemblages in high-pressure metapelites from the Bughea complex, Leaota Massif (South Carpathians)

Journal of Petrology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 103-125

  Negulescu, Elena ^a   Sǎbǎ, Gavril ^a   Massonne, Hans Joachim ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF ROMANIA   (Romania)

^b Institut Für Mineralogie und Kristallchemie   (Germany)

Author keywords

High pressure metapelite; Mg rich chloritoid; P T path; P T pseudosection; Very high pressure eclogite

Indexed keywords

CHLORITOID; ECLOGITE; GARNET; METAPELITE; P-T CONDITIONS; P-T-T PATH; RETROGRADE METAMORPHISM; SUBDUCTION; ZONING;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; LEAOTA MASSIF; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 60949092134     PISSN: 00223530     EISSN: 14602415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/petrology/egn075     Document Type: Article

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