Garnet crystal growth in sheared metapelites (southern Calabria-Italy): Relationships between isolated porphyroblasts and coalescing euhedral crystals

Periodico di Mineralogia

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 3-18

  Fazio, Eugenio ^a   Cirrincione, Rosolino ^a   Pezzino, Antonino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Coalesced garnets; Crystal growth; Inclusion trails; Shear zone; Southern Calabria

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951151273     PISSN: 03698963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2451/2009PM0001     Document Type: Article

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