On ultrahigh-temperature crustal metamorphism

DE Kelsey - Gondwana Research, 2008 - Elsevier
Ultrahigh-temperature (UHT) metamorphism is the most thermally extreme type of crustal
metamorphism, with the crust capable of withstanding temperatures≥ 900° C. Mineral …

Metamorphic conditions in orogenic belts: a record of secular change

M Brown - International Geology Review, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
In general, Archean rocks exhibit rather ordinary moderate-P-high-T facies series
metamorphism; neither blueschists nor any record of deep continental subduction and return …

On the occurrence and characterization of ultrahigh-temperature crustal metamorphism

SL Harley - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 1998 - lyellcollection.org
Ultrahigh-temperature (UHT) crustal metamorphism is a division of medium-pressure
granulite facies metamorphism where peak temperatures of 900–1100° C have been …

[KSIĄŻKA][B] Introduction to metamorphic textures and microstructures

AJ Barker - 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
A text which aims to help undergraduate students in geology to recognize and interpret
metamorphic textures and microstructures in thin-section. For lecturers and postgraduates in …

A review of Archaean and Paleoproterozoic evolution of the In Ouzzal granulitic terrane (Western Hoggar, Algeria)

K Ouzegane, JR Kienast, A Bendaoud… - Journal of African Earth …, 2003 - Elsevier
The In Ouzzal terrane (Western Hoggar) is an example of Archaean crust remobilized during
a very-high-temperature metamorphism related to the Paleoproterozoic orogeny (2 Ga). Pan …

Calculated phase equilibria in K2O‐FeO‐MgO‐Al2O3‐SiO2‐H2O for sapphirine‐quartz‐bearing mineral assemblages

DE Kelsey, RW White, TJB Holland… - Journal of Metamorphic …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Sapphirine, coexisting with quartz, is an indicator mineral for ultrahigh‐temperature
metamorphism in aluminous rock compositions. Here a new activity‐composition model for …

Ultrahigh temperature granulite metamorphism (1050 C, 12 kbar) and decompression in garnet (Mg70)–orthopyroxene–sillimanite gneisses from the Rauer Group …

SL Harley - Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Highly magnesian and aluminous migmatitic gneisses from Mather Peninsula in the Rauer
Group, Eastern Antarctica, preserve ultrahigh temperature (UHT) metamorphic assemblages …

Reaction textures in a suite of spinel granulites from the Eastern Ghats Belt, India: evidence for polymetamorphism, a partial petrogenetic grid in the system KFMASH …

S DASGUPTA, P Sengupta, J Ehl, M Raith… - Journal of …, 1995 - academic.oup.com
Spinel granulites, with or without sapphirine, occur as lenses in garnetiferous
quartzofeldspathic gneisses (leptynites) near Gokavaram in the Eastern Ghats Belt, India …

Petrology of sapphirine-bearing and associated granulites from central Sri Lanka

LM Kriegsman, JC Schumacher - Journal of Petrology, 1999 - academic.oup.com
Calcium-poor, magnesian granulites from two localities in central Sri Lanka contain a rich
variety of assemblages composed of combinations of sapphirine (Spr), garnet …

Multiple tectonometamorphic imprints in the lower crust: first evidence of ca. 950 Ma (zircon U‐Pb SHRIMP) compressional reworking of UHT aluminous granulites …

K Das, S Bose, S Karmakar, DJ Dunkley… - Geological …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Integrated structural, petrological and geochronological study on a suite of granulites from
the central part of the Eastern Ghats Belt (EGB), India unveils polyphase tectonothermal …