The “Grating Diffraction Calculator” (GD-Calc) is a MATLAB-based, electromagnetic simulation program that computes diffraction efficiencies of optical grating structures, including biperiodic gratings. The program’s capabilities include a general and flexible grating modeling facility, structure parameterization (with any number of parameters), and unrestricted control over diffraction order se...

Five calc-alkaline plutons; Um Tagher, Abu Zawil, Um Gidri, Um Anab and El Ghuzah, in the northern Eastern Desert of Egypt were subjected to petrographic and mineralogical investigations. They are composed of varying proportions of quartz + plagioclase +potash feldspar+ biotite + hornblende± epidote ± calcite + titanite +magnetite + apatite and zircon. Electron microprobe analyses of coexisting...

The Big Jim complex is a concentrically zoned ultramafic to felsic plutonic complex which intruded the pelitic Chiwaukum schist. Most of the major plutonic rock types (from websterite through hornblendite, gabbronorite, hornblende gabbro and diorite, to granodiorite) enclose harzburgite and metaperidotite xenoliths similar to foliated metaperidotite lenses included in the Chiwaukum schist. The ...

some small gabbro patches emplaced along the thrust fault with w-e trend in the vicinity of maien bolagh village at the ht/mp metapelites, a part of the central iran zone (near to sanandaj-sirjan zone). the coarse-grained dark gabbro samples consist of amphibole, clinopyroxene, plagioclase, minor quartz, titanite, and biotite. gabbros have high potassic calc-alkaline to shoshonitic affinity. th...

To ascertain the Early-to-Middle Jurassic tectonic setting in central Great Xing’an Range, this study investigated Early and Middle granitoids exposed Chaihe area Range based on isotopic chronology petrogeochemistry. The results of show that have emplacement ages 179–172 Ma. Moreover, are high-K calc-alkaline unfractionated I-type fractionated granitoids, respectively. magma sources both origin...

The volcanic rocks in Semporna Peninsula, Sabah, Malaysia forms parts of the Miocene subjected slab during Miocene-Pliocene orogeny. This study presents new petrographic and geochemical data area. range composition from basaltic andesite, dacite to rhyolite, with most shows calc-alkaline affinity a minor tholeiitic feature. trace elements enrichment large-ion lithophile (LILE) light rare earth ...

The East Kunlun Orogenic Belt (EKOB), which is in the northern part of Greater Tibetan Plateau, contains voluminous Late Triassic intermediate-felsic volcanic rocks. In east end EKOB, we identified highly differentiated peralkaline-like Xiangride rhyolites (~209 Ma) that differ from widespread andesitic-rhyolitic Elashan volcanics (~232–225 terms their field occurrences and mineral assemblages....

This article discusses the geochemical and petrological evolution of São José do Campestre granite complex (SJCgr), last Neoarchean plutonic event so far described in massif NE Brazil. We report field, petrographic, zircon U-Pb dating, whole rock mineral chemistry for representative SJCgr samples. Laser ablation data indicate that emplacement took place at 2664 ± 13 Ma. The rocks comprising hav...