PT-path reconstruction via unraveling of peculiar zoning pattern in atoll shaped garnets via image assisted analysis: An example from the Santa Lucia del Mela garnet micaschists (Northeastern Sicily-Italy)

Periodico di Mineralogia

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 257-297

  Ortolano, Gaetano ^a   Visalli, Roberto ^a   Cirrincione, Rosolino ^a   Rebay, Gisella ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Perple X; Southern Calabrian Peloritani Orogen; Thermodynamic modeling; X Ray map analyzer

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907771821     PISSN: 03698963     EISSN: 22391002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2451/2013PM0015     Document Type: Article

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