Glaucophane-bearing rocks — indicators of high-pressure metamorphism were earlier found in the Polar Urals Neoproterozoic deposits Nyarovey series, northern part Marunkeu eclogite-amphibolite-gneiss complex, and foot ultramafic massifs Main Ural Fault (MUF) zone. We have discovered western endocontact Kharbey amphibolite-gneiss where they are represented by garnet-glaucophane, garnet-glaucophan...

Introduction: In this work, we report on the results of a combined scanning electron microscopy and micro-Raman spectroscopy investigation of stishovite and coesite in shocked Hospital Hill quartzite from the Vredefort impact structure of South Africa. Sanples have investigated using optical microscopy and under the scanning electron microscope, using energy dispersive x-ray spectrometry (EDS),...

The Puncoviscana Formation, largely cropping out in NW Argentina, is mainly composed of a pelite-greywacke turbidite sequence affected by incipient regional metamorphism and polyphase deformation. Metapelites, composed mainly of quartz, albite, dioctahedral mica and chlorite, were sampled in the Lules-Puncoviscana and Choromoro belts. Lattice-fringe images, selected area electron diffraction an...

Thallium (Tl) is a highly incompatible element which can be redistributed during various igneous and hydrothermal events such as mineral dehydration low-temperature alteration. Despite the strong influence fluid-rock interactions have on Tl redistribution importance of fluids in subduction-zone volatiles cycling, geochemical behavior high-P/T metamorphism has not yet been quantified. Here we pr...

The Qinling orogen (Fig. 1) extends for over 2000 km across central China, separating the Archean and Proterozoic Sino-Korean block in the north from the Proterozoic Yangtze block in the south. Although the orogen has been recognized as a continental collision zone for some time, the nature, age, and duration of the collision have been the subject of considerable debate (see review in Hacker et...