This paper compares the predictive performance of different geostatistical kriging algorithms for intertidal surface sediment facies mapping using grain size data. Indicator kriging, which maps facies types from conditional probabilities of predefined facies types, is first considered. In the second approach, grain size fractions are first predicted using cokriging and the facies types are then...

Abstract The rates and mechanisms by which deeply subducted continental crust was exhumed back to the surface are not well understood, but can be better characterized using multimineral petrochronology. Here, we combine zircon, titanite, apatite U-Pb ages from leucogranite phengite gneiss with a pressure–temperature (P–T) path eclogite provide robust quantitative constraints on cooling exhumati...

Mounting evidence suggests that partial disequilibrium—meaning disequilibrium for some elements, but not for others—may be a common but rarely detected phenomenon during metamorphic mineral growth, even in ordinary prograde reactions that progress to completion. Detailed examination of compositional variations in garnet crystals over a range of metamorphic grade suggests distinctly different sc...

Abstract The Rocca Canavese Thrust Sheets Unit (RCTU) is a subduction-related mélange that represents the eastern-most complex of Sesia–Lanzo Zone (SLZ), bounded by Periadriatic (Canavese) Lineament separates Alpine subduction from Southalpine domain. RCTU limited to south Lanzo Massif (LM) and east Eclogitic Micaschists Complex (EMC). Particularly tectonic contact area RCTU, adjacent neighbour...

Permission to copy is restricted to an abstract of not more than 300 words. Illustrations may not be copied. The abstract should contain conspicuous acknowledgement of where and by whom the paper was presented. Abstract This paper proposes an annealing-type algorithm for generating multiple realizations of facies distributions that: (i) honor the facies data at well locations, (ii) match global...

Multiscale structural analysis is carried out to explore the sequence of superposed pre-Alpine chloritoid–staurolite–andalusite metamorphic assemblages in polydeformed Variscan basement upper Val Camonica, central Southalpine domain. The dominant fabric Camonica late-Variscan S2 foliation, marked by greenschist facies minerals and truncated base Permian siliciclastic sequences. intersection wit...

Abstract Rutile from a wide range of orogenic gold deposits and districts, including representative world-class deposits, was investigated for its texture trace element composition using scanning electron microscopy, probe microanalysis, laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry. Deposits are hosted in various country rocks felsic to ultramafic igneous sedimentary rocks, which...

Greenschist facies metabasite (chlorite schist) and metasediments (banded iron formation (BIF)) in the Wutai Complex, North China Craton recorded extensive fluid activities during subduction-related metamorphism. The pervasive dolomitization chlorite schist significant dolomite enrichment at BIF–chlorite interface support existence of highly channelized updip transportation CO2-rich hydrotherma...