Ultrahigh pressure metamorphism /

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Imprint:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Description:x, 528 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Language:English
Series:Cambridge topics in petrology
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1726648
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Other authors / contributors:Coleman, Robert Griffin, 1923-
Wang, Xiaomin, 1962-
ISBN:0521432146
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Overview of the geology and tectonics of UHPM
  • 2. Experimental and petrogenetic study of UHPM
  • 3. Principal mineralogical indicators of ultrahigh pressure in crustal rocks
  • 4. Structures in ultrahigh pressure metamorphic rocks: a case study from the Alps
  • 5. Creation, preservation, and exhumation of ultrahigh pressure metamorphic rocks
  • 6. The role of serpentinite melanges in the unroofing of ultrahigh pressure metamorphic rocks: An example from the Western Alps of Italy
  • 7. Ultrahigh pressure metamorphic rocks in Western Alps
  • 8. High and ultrahigh pressure eclogites and garnet peridotites in the Scandinavian Caledonides
  • 9. Microcoesites and microdiamonds in Norway: a brief review
  • 10. Ultrahigh pressure metamorphic terrane in Eastern Central China
  • 11. A model for the tectonic history of the high and ultrahigh pressure metamorphic region in East Central China
  • 12. Diamond-bearing metamorphic rocks of the Kokchetav Massif
  • 13. Orogenic ultramafic rocks of ultrahigh pressure (diamond facies) origin