Petrology of coesite-bearing eclogite from Habutengsu Valley, western Tianshan, NW China and its tectonometamorphic implication

Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 773-787

  Lu Z ^a,b   Zhang, L ^a   Du, J ^a   Bucher, K ^b  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chinese western Tianshan; Coesite eclogite; Cold oceanic subduction; Phase diagram; UHP metamorphism

Indexed keywords

COESITE; DEHYDRATION; ECLOGITE; GARNET; GLAUCOPHANE; GRAPHITE; OMPHACITE; PARAGONITE; PETROLOGY; QUARTZ; SUBDUCTION; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

ASIA; EURASIA; TIEN SHAN;

EID: 70449825369     PISSN: 02634929     EISSN: 15251314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2009.00845.x     Document Type: Article

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