Eclogites from the Guanshan and Yangkou areas of Sulu orogen consist garnet, omphacite, phengite, amphibole, quartz/coesite, rutile, ilmenite. Garnet exhibits weak compositional zoning where Xgr decreases core to mantle then increases towards rim, coupled with an increase in Xpy decrease rim. Phase equilibria modelling pseudosections calculated using THERMOCALC NCKFMASHTO system for eclogites r...

The Scandinavian Caledonides comprise nappe stacks of far-travelled allochthons that record closure the Iapetus Ocean and subsequent continental collision Baltica Laurentia. Seve Nappe Complex (SNC) includes relics outermost Baltoscandian passive margin were subducted to mantle depths. earliest deep subduction events has been dated ca. 500–480 Ma. Evidence this event reported from northern expo...

Studies of several samples of the large Caddo County IAB iron meteorite reveal andesitic material, enriched in Si, Na, Al and Ca, which is essentially unique among meteorites. This material is believed to have formed from a chondritic source by partial melting and to have further segregated by grain coarsening. Such an origin implies extended metamorphism of the IAB parent body. New 39Ar40Ar ag...

Subduction erosion is widely thought to play a significant role in crustal recycling at modern convergent plate margins. However, identifying subduction fossil accretionary margins difficult due multiple episodes of tectonic superimposition and an absence direct geophysical evidence. By assessing provenance metamorphic records this study, we are the first document record Late Triassic Middle Ju...