Corundum-leucosome-bearing aluminous gneiss from Ayyarmalai, Southern Granulite Terrain, India: A textbook example of vapor phase-absent muscovite-melting in silica-undersaturated aluminous rocks

American Mineralogist

Volumn 95, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 897-907

  Raith, Michael M ^a   Sengupta, Pulak ^b   Kooijman, Ellen ^c   Upadhyay, Dewashish ^c,d   Srikantappppa, C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE   (India)

Author keywords

Aluminous migmatite; Corundum bearing leucosomes; Palghat Cauvery shear zone system; Silica undersaturated muscovite melting

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; ALUMINUM OXIDE; BINARY ALLOYS; BIOTITE; CALCIUM OXIDE; CORUNDUM DEPOSITS; FELDSPAR; IRON OXIDES; LEAD ALLOYS; MAGNESIA; MELTING; MICA; OXIDE MINERALS; SILICA; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE; ZIRCON;

EUHEDRAL CRYSTALS; FELDSPAR THERMOMETRIES; INDIVIDUAL GRAINS; LEUCOSOMES; MIGMATITE; NUCLEATION AND GROWTH; P-T PSEUDOSECTION; SHEAR ZONE;

CORUNDUM;

BIOTITE; CORUNDUM; FELDSPAR; FELSIC ROCK; GNEISS; GRANULITE; HIGH PRESSURE; LEUCOSOME; MAFIC ROCK; METAMORPHISM; MIGMATITE; MUSCOVITE; NUCLEATION; P-T CONDITIONS; PARTIAL MELTING; PLAGIOCLASE; SHEAR ZONE; SILICA;

INDIA; KERALA; PALGHAT;

EID: 77957201272     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2010.3399     Document Type: Article

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