Elastic thermobarometry

MJ Kohn, ML Mazzucchelli… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Upon exhumation and cooling, contrasting compressibilities and thermal expansivities
induce differential strains (volume mismatches) between a host crystal and its inclusions …

Raman elastic geobarometry for anisotropic mineral inclusions

M Murri, ML Mazzucchelli… - … : Journal of Earth …, 2018 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Elastic geobarometry for host-inclusion systems can provide new constraints to assess the
pressure and temperature conditions attained during metamorphism. Current experimental …

[HTML][HTML] Fossil subduction recorded by quartz from the coesite stability field

M Alvaro, ML Mazzucchelli, RJ Angel, M Murri… - …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Metamorphic rocks are the records of plate tectonic processes whose reconstruction relies
on correct estimates of the pressures and temperatures (PT) experienced by these rocks …

Experimental study of quartz inclusions in garnet at pressures up to 3.0 GPa: evaluating validity of the quartz-in-garnet inclusion elastic thermobarometer

JB Thomas, FS Spear - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2018 - Springer
Garnet crystals with quartz inclusions were hydrothermally crystallized from oxide starting
materials in piston–cylinder apparatuses at pressures from 0.5 to 3 GPa and temperatures …

Post-entrapment modification of residual inclusion pressure and its implications for Raman elastic thermobarometry

X Zhong, E Moulas, L Tajčmanová - Solid Earth, 2020 - se.copernicus.org
Residual pressure can be preserved in mineral inclusions, eg quartz-in-garnet, after
exhumation due to differential expansion between inclusion and host crystals. Raman …

First finding of microdiamond, coesite and other UHP phases in felsic granulites in the Moldanubian Zone: Implications for deep subduction and a revised geodynamic …

M Perraki, SW Faryad - Lithos, 2014 - Elsevier
Heavy mineral fractions and polished thin sections from felsic granulites from the
Moldanubian Zone of the Bohemian Massif were thoroughly studied by means of Raman …

Zircon and quartz inclusions in garnet used for complementary Raman thermobarometry: application to the Holsnøy eclogite, Bergen Arcs, Western Norway

X Zhong, NH Andersen, M Dabrowski… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2019 - Springer
Mineral inclusions are common and have been widely used to investigate complex
geological history. When a rock undergoes cooling and decompression after the entrapment …

Metamorphic evolution of relict lawsonite‐bearing eclogites from the (U) HP metamorphic belt in the Chinese southwestern Tianshan

JX Du, LF Zhang, T Bader, ZY Chen… - Journal of Metamorphic …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In the Chinese southwestern Tianshan (U) HP belt, former lawsonite presence has
been predicted for many (U) HP metamorphic eclogites, but only a very few lawsonite grains …

Variable P–T paths and HP-UHP metamorphism in a Precambrian terrane, Gridino, Russia: Petrological evidence and geodynamic implications

AL Perchuk, AA Morgunova - Gondwana Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Gridino Complex represents one of the oldest eclogite-facies terranes on Earth.
It consists of blocks, boudins and lenses of eclogites, pyroxenites, and epidosites as well as …

Tiny timekeepers witnessing high-rate exhumation processes

X Zhong, E Moulas, L Tajčmanová - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Tectonic forces and surface erosion lead to the exhumation of rocks from the Earth's interior.
Those rocks can be characterized by many variables including peak pressure and …