Mullite is an aluminosilicate of the composition Al2(Al212xSi222x)O102x with x generally ranging between 0.2 and 0.5. XRD and 29Si and 27Al nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) have been used to investigate the structure of various mullite compositions (x 5 0.26, 0.36, 0.42, and 0.69) as well as sillimanite (x 5 0) and g-Al2O3 (x 5 1). 27Al magic angle spinning (MAS) NMR of the central and satellit...

Abstract Bengal Fan Miocene sediments were collected during International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 354 and investigated using petrographic detrital garnet chemistry analyses. The Siwalik Group, which is composed of deposited in the Himalayan foreland basin, was also analyzed for comparison with data provenance change Miocene. Our analyses revealed that Group consist predominantly High...

[1] The Nordfjord area of western Norway hosts one of the best known provinces of ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) rocks in the world, yet the nature of the transition from the UHP rocks into surrounding amphibolite-facies crust has remained unclear. New thermobarometry of phengiteand kyanite-bearing eclogites shows that this transition is unbroken by major structures: the pressure and temperature grad...

Abstract Garnet–kyanite–staurolite assemblages with large, late porphyroblasts of amphibole form garbenschists in Ordovician volcaniclastic rocks lying immediately south the Pearya terrane on northernmost Ellesmere Island, Canada. The schist, which together carbonate olistoliths makes up Petersen Bay Assemblage (PBA), displays a series parallel isograds that mark an increase metamorphic grade o...

Isotopic data were collected on lower crustal xenoliths to constrain the Mexican lower crust as source material for the mid-Tertiary Sierra Madre Occidental, which is one of the largest silicic volcanic piles known. The xenoliths are predominantly pelitic gneisses and marie orthogneisses that were brought to the surface on the eastern edge of the Sierra Madre Occidental by recent alkalic basalt...

Cratonic mantle eclogite xenoliths occur with diamond-bearing kimberlite. The modes and mineral compositions of eclogite contain important information on their origin, physical-chemical conditions of formation, and their geophysical properties. We have used the pseudosection option of the program PERPLEX to explore how mineral assemblage, abundance, and composition vary with bulk composition, t...