Prograde and retrograde högbomites in sapphirine + quartz bearing Mg-Al rock from the Palghat-Cauvery Suture Zone, southern India

Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 319-323

  Nishimiya, Yuki ^a   Tsunogae, Toshiaki ^a,b   Santosh, M ^c   Dubessy, Jean ^d   Chetty, T R K ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^c KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CRPG CNRS   (France)

^e NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Gondwana supercontinent; H gbomite; Mg Al rock; Neoprotero zoic to cambrian; Raman spectroscopy; Ultrahigh temperature metamorphism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749336727     PISSN: 13456296     EISSN: 13493825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2465/jmps.090613     Document Type: Letter

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