Introduction: Shocked rocks are known from various planetary bodies of the solar system including Earth, Moon, Mars, and several types of asteroids. It was first recognized on Earth that stages of progressive shock metamorphism can be defined [1,2,3,4] and this concept was later on confirmed for lunar rocks [5] and meteorites [6,7,8]. Initiated by the IUGS “Subcommission on the Classification o...

85 The physiography of the area is dominated by glaciated landforms carved in gneiss of the Fiordland Complex. The gneiss is generally dioritic, with gradations to quartzo-feldspathic and amphibolitic varieties, and is cut by mainly barren pegmatite veins; epidote is abundant. The rocks commonly show signs of post-consolidational shearing and crushing. There is a well defined zone of strongly c...

arghash – ghasem-abad area in ne iran is located in the rim of the sabzevar structural zone. tertiary outcrops include granite and quartz monzodiorite porphyry associated with dacite and andesite volcanic rocks. in the study area, quartz gabbro and quartz monzodiorite dykes intruded the older rocks. granite and volcanic rocks host au-sb-bearing quartz-calcite veins. mineralized veins are mainly...

Measurement of thermal conductivity of rocks is important to understand the thermal properties of earth materials, the characteristics of terrestrial heat flow, and the formation of oil. In this paper we report thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity, and heat capacity data for 12 conglomerate, sandstone, and gypsum-bearing samples from the Paleogene Kuqa River profile in Kuqa, China. Samples...