Application of titanium-in-quartz thermobarometry to greenschist facies veins and recrystallized quartzites in the Hsüehshan range, Taiwan

Solid Earth

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-21

  Kidder, S ^a,c   Avouac, J P ^a   Chan, Y C ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUID PRESSURES; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENTS; GRAIN BOUNDARY DIFFUSIVITY; LITHOSTATIC PRESSURE; RECRYSTALLIZED GRAIN SIZES; RECRYSTALLIZED GRAINS; THERMOBAROMETRY; TI-IN-QUARTZ THERMOBAROMETRY;

CALIBRATION; DEFORMATION; DYNAMIC RECRYSTALLIZATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MICA; QUARTZ;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EMPLACEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; GREENSCHIST FACIES; P-T CONDITIONS; QUARTZ; QUARTZ VEIN; QUARTZITE; RECRYSTALLIZATION; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; TITANIUM;

HSUEH SHAN; TAIWAN;

EID: 84886651326     PISSN: 18699510     EISSN: 18699529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/se-4-1-2013     Document Type: Article

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