Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 528 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511573088
Series Statement:
Cambridge topics in petrology
Content:
Recent discoveries of diamond and coesite in the upper crustal rocks of the Earth have drastically changed scientists' ideas concerning the limits of crustal metamorphism. This book provides detailed accounts of the discoveries of diamond and coesite in crustal rocks and provides insights regarding their formation at very high pressures. The formation of these minerals is related to subduction and continental collision and the tectonics, petrological and mineralogical conditions of diamond and coesite formation are each discussed. Written by the leading workers in this exciting field, this book attempts to define an entirely new field of metamorphism - ultrahigh pressure metamorphism (UHPM). In doing so, it explains the formation of ultrahigh pressure minerals and explores new ideas regarding the tectonic setting of this style of metamorphism. This book will be of particular interest to researchers and graduate students of metamorphic petrology and global tectonics
Content:
1. Overview of the geology and tectonics of UHPM / R.G. Coleman and X. Wang -- 2. Experimental and petrogenetic study of UHPM / H.-J. Massonne -- 3. Principal mineralogic indicators of UHP in crustal rocks / C. Chopin and N.V. Sobolev -- 4. Structures in UHPM rocks: A case study from the Alps / A. Michard, C. Henry and C. Chopin -- 5. Creation, preservation, and exhumation of UHPM rocks / B.R. Hacker and S.M. Peacock -- 6. The role of serpentinite melanges in the unroofing of UHPM rocks: An example from the Western Alps of Italy / M.C. Blake, Jr., D.E. Moore and A.S. Jayko -- 7. Ultra-high-pressure metamorphic rocks in the Western Alps / R. Compagnoni, T. Hirajima and C. Chopin -- 8. HP and UHP eclogites and garnet peridotites in the Scandinavian Caledonides / E.J. Krogh and D.A. Carswell -- 9. Microcoesites and microdiamonds in Norway: An overview / D.C. Smith -- 10. UHPM terrane in east central China / X. Wang, R. Zhang and J.G. Liou
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521432146
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521547994
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521432146
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511573088
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