Quartz grain boundaries as fluid pathways in metamorphic rocks

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1957-1967

  Kruhl, Jörn H ^a   Wirth, Richard ^b   Morales, Luiz F G ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

fluid pathway; focused ion beam technique; grain boundary cavity; quartz cell reduction; quartz grain boundary; transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; GRAIN BOUNDARY; METAMORPHISM; P-T CONDITIONS; POROSITY; QUARTZ; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VOID RATIO;

EID: 84880711106     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50099     Document Type: Article

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