Introduction: Individual grains and small lithic clasts in thin-sectioned suevitic breccia samples from the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) Bosumtwi impact crater drillcore LB07A were examined petrographically to evaluate the occurrence , abundance, and characteristics of unshocked and shock-metamorphosed quartz. The analyzed samples were taken across a ~42-m-long (...

for the first time, an unusual assemblage of talc-phengite-chlorite-k-feldspar was found in quartz schists from the sanandaj-sirjan zone in the nahavand area in western iran. the talc-bearing quartz schists occur as small bodies or lenses within pelitic schist layers and contain talc, phengite, chlorite, k-feldspar and quartz as major mineral constituents with subordinate amounts of calcite ...

The present study indicate that the copper mineralization in the area is of the nature of scattered sporadic occurrences of narrow lenticular and impersistent stringers and veins of copper-ore in vein-quartz and pegmatite traversing the amphibolite and garnetiferous mica schist country rock. The old workings for copper ore at Garimanipenta, which had a checkered history since early times, are b...

Constraining conditions and mechanisms of the early stages exhumation from within subduction zones is challenging. Although pressure, temperature, age can be inferred exhumed rock record, it generally difficult to derive each these parameters any single rock, thus demanding assumptions that diverse data multiple samples safely combined into a pressure-temperature-time (P-T-t) path might then us...

tourmaline can be found as an accessory mineral in a variety of rocks including leucogranite, pegmatite, quartz veins, and metamorphiccountry rocks in hajiabad-dehgah area in se of boroujerd city. tourmaline in pegmatites is coarse-grained, subhedral to euhedral, anddisplays strong to moderate pleochroic blue rimmed by olive green. in contrast, tourmalines from leucogranite, quartz-veins, and h...

The Arosa Zone, Central Alps, represents a Cretaceous to Paleogene fossil subduction interface from paleodepths of 10 >35 km. Metasedimentary schists directly below preserved seismogenic zone exhibit viscous (foliations, folds, and lineations) brittle (crack-seal quartz ± calcite veins) deformation features. Si-in-phengite barometry published temperature estimates yield metamorphism conditions ...