Garnet could be the ultimate petrochronometer. Not only can you date it directly (with an
accuracy and precision that may surprise some), but it is also a common rock-forming and …

High-temperature metamorphic rocks are the result of numerous chemical and physical
processes that occur during a potentially long-lived thermal evolution. These rocks chart the …

At the core of petrochronology is the relationship between geochronology and the
petrological evolution of major mineral assemblages. The focus of this chapter is on …

Partial melting is the fundamental process by which juvenile crust was produced from the
mantle and subsequently reworked to become the stable, compositionally-differentiated …

Monazite is a common accessory phase in felsic granulite ribbon mylonites exposed in the
Upper Deck domain of the Athabasca granulite terrane, western Canadian Shield. Field …

Thermodynamic modelling and calculation of P–T pseudosections are commonly employed
for quantifying the P–T evolution of metamorphic rocks. A key assumption involved in …

Suprasolidus continental crust is prone to loss and redistribution of anatectic melt to shallow
crustal levels. These processes ultimately lead to differentiation of the continental crust. The …

The use of rare earth element (REE) partition coefficients is an increasingly common tool in
metamorphic studies, linking the growth or modification of accessory mineral …

The suprasolidus behaviour of apatite and monazite is examined for an average metapelite
composition using phase equilibria modelling coupled with solubility equations of these …

Abundant granitic rocks exposed in ancient mountain belts suggest that crustal melting plays
a major role in orogenic processes. However, complex field relations and superposition of …