Osumilite and a spinel + quartz association in garnet-sillimanite gneiss from Rundvågshetta, Lützow-Holm Complex, East Antarctica

Gondwana Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 430-445

  Kawasaki, Toshisuke ^a   Nakano, Nobuhiko ^b   Osanai, Yasuhito ^b  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

East Antarctica; L tzow Holm Complex; Osumilite; Rundv gshetta; Spinel quartz coexistence

Indexed keywords

GARNET; GNEISS; OSUMILITE; PORPHYROBLAST; QUARTZ; SILICON; SILLIMANITE; SPINEL; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 78751704193     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2010.07.008     Document Type: Article

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