The Pelona, Orocopia, and Rand Schists and the schists of Portal Ridge and Sierra de Salinas constitute a high–pressure-temperature terrane that was accreted beneath North American basement in Late Cretaceous–earliest Tertiary time. The schists crop out in a belt extending from the southern Coast Ranges through the Mojave Desert, central Transverse Ranges, southeastern California, and southwest...

The anisotropy of deformation and strength behavior in quartz mica schist is fundamental to rock mechanics. Here, we concentrated on the practical application numerical simulation rock. First, existence engineering was reported, tested situ, analyzed. Then, a set specially designed multi-angle uniaxial compression tests conducted. Based these, two methods (explicit implicit) for were demonstrat...

In the Asemi-gawa area of intermediate high-pressure and low-temperature Sanbagawa metamorphic belt in central Shikoku, Japan, piemontite-quartz schists are common in which cation exchange between piemontite and garnet has been studied. Piemontite in contact with garnet usually contains two zones in which core is enriched in Mn3+ and surrounded by a rim rich in Fe3+. Garnet is Ca-Fe-bearing spe...

Quartz and closely related materials will transform under pressure from crystalline states to amorphous forms. Here we examine coesite, a high pressure form of silica which also undergoes pressure induced amorphization. We nd that coesite, like quartz, possesses a shear instability closely coupled to a zone edge phonon softening at pressures comparable to the amorphization transformation. The c...