The protoliths of metamorphosed argillaceous rocks from the Garmichay area in the East Azerbaijan province of NW Iran were clay-rich sediments of reworked nature, originating most likely from an andesite to andesite-basalt source and deposited in an active continental margin tectonic setting. The protoliths of the Garmichay metapelites experienced low to moderate chemical weathering. Andalusite...

Abstract The Iberian Pyrite Belt is a world-class metallogenic district developed at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary Variscides that currently has seven active mines: Neves Corvo (Cu-Zn-Sn) and Aljustrel (Cu-Zn) in Portugal, Riotinto (Cu), Las Cruces Aguas Teñidas (Cu-Zn-Pb), Sotiel-Coronada La Magdalena (Cu-Zn-Pb) Spain. massive sulfide ores are usually hosted lower sections of volcano-sed...

Abstract Garnet–kyanite–staurolite assemblages with large, late porphyroblasts of amphibole form garbenschists in Ordovician volcaniclastic rocks lying immediately south the Pearya terrane on northernmost Ellesmere Island, Canada. The schist, which together carbonate olistoliths makes up Petersen Bay Assemblage (PBA), displays a series parallel isograds that mark an increase metamorphic grade o...

Polygenetic monazite grains in diverse Precambrian crystalline rocks from the Black Hills, South Dakota, have been analyzed in situ by ion and electron microprobe methods (SHRIMP and EMP), to evaluate the accuracy and precision of EMP ages determined using a new analytical protocol that incorporates improved background acquisition and interference corrections. Parallel evaluations were conducte...