Thermodynamic modeling assisted by multivariate statistical image analysis as a tool for unraveling metamorphic P-T-d evolution: An example from ilmenite-garnet-bearing metapelite of the Peloritani Mountains, Southern Italy

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 106, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 151-171

  Fiannacca, Patrizia ^a   Lo Pò, Deborah ^b   Ortolano, Gaetano ^a   Cirrincione, Rosolino ^a   Pezzino, Antonino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GARNET; ILMENITE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; METAMORPHIC ROCK; METAPELITE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; P-T CONDITIONS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

ITALY; MESSINA [SICILY]; PELORITANI MOUNTAINS; SICILY;

EID: 84869862455     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00710-012-0228-4     Document Type: Article

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