Oriented precipitates of quartz and amphibole in clinopyroxene of metabasites from the Greek Rhodope: A product of open system precipitation during eclogite-granulite-amphibolite transition

Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 639-654

  Proyer, A ^a   Krenn, K ^a   Hoinkes, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ca Eskola; Greek Rhodope; Open system; Precipitate; Ultrahigh pressure

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLE; AMPHIBOLITE; AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; CLEAVAGE; CLINOPYROXENE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; GRANULITE; HOST ROCK; ION EXCHANGE; LATTICE DYNAMICS; METABASITE; OMPHACITE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); QUARTZ; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

EASTERN MACEDONIA AND THRACE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; RHODOPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70450093584     PISSN: 02634929     EISSN: 15251314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2009.00844.x     Document Type: Article

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