An AEM study of garnet clinopyroxenite from the Sulu ultrahigh-pressure terrane: Formation mechanisms of oriented ilmenite, spinel, magnetite, amphibole and garnet inclusions in clinopyroxene

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 161, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 901-920

  Hwang, Shyh Lung ^a   Yui, Tzen Fu ^b   Chu, Hao Tsu ^c   Shen, Pouyan ^d   Zhang, Ru Yuan ^e   Liou, Juhn G ^e  

^a NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical electron microscopy; Clinopyroxene; Garnet clinopyroxenite; Inclusion; Ultrahigh pressure metamorphism

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLE; CLINOPYROXENE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FORMATION MECHANISM; GARNET; ILMENITE; INCLUSION; MAGNETITE; MEGACRYST; ORIENTATION; P-T-T PATH; PORPHYROBLAST; PYROXENITE; SPINEL; TERRANE; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

AUTONOMOUS REGION IN MUSLIM MINDANAO; PHILIPPINES; SULU;

EID: 79955865746     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-010-0571-6     Document Type: Article

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