The evolution of both the first- and second-order Raman spectra carbonaceous material (CM) through successive contact regional metamorphic events is explored in western part Ryoke belt (Iwakuni-Yanai area, SW Japan). Thirty-two metasedimentary rock samples were collected along a N-S gradient locally affected by metamorphism before after main tectono-metamorphic event (DP1). First-order document...

the borujerd complex of western iran is composed of intrusions and their surrounding contact aureole, with, pegmatites and quartz veins. pegmatites differ in mineralogy, origin and age, and two groups can be distinguished. the older pegmatites (about 120 ma age) intruded contact metamorphic rocks from the early magmatic stage, while the younger pegmatites (52-70 ma age) formed during the late m...

We have developed a new quantitative method to estimate paleohorizontal in granitic plutons using the aluminum-in-hornblende (AH) barometer. The method is used to correct previously published paleomagnetic data from the 93–96 Ma Mount Stuart batholith of the Cascades Mountains, Washington State, for the effects of postemplacement tilting. AH barometry was done on 46 samples from the batholith u...

the formation of atoll garnet in the ardara aureole, nw ireland, is discussed using the textural, chemical and electron backscatter diffraction (ebsd) data. textural evidence suggests the possibility of incipient of garnet replacement from the core. in addition, the presence of staurolite and andalusite in the core of small atoll garnets as well as the occurrence of sillimanite in the core of l...

This work evaluates an exceptionally complex natural laboratory, the Middle Triassic Latemar isolated platform in northern Italian Dolomite Mountains and explores spatial temporal gradients processes products related to contact metamorphism, dolomitization dedolomitization of marine limestones. The relation between petrographic change re-equilibration geochemical proxy data is evaluated from pe...

The relations of fibrolite-biotite are discussed by presenting data from the Ardara aureole, NW Ireland. Biotite-fibrolite intergrowths are developed in all three aureole zones including: the outer kyanite-bearing andalusite zone, the middle kyanite-free andalusite zone and the inner prismatic sillimanite zone. A strain-assisted mechanism is proposed for the fibrolitisation of biotite in the Ar...