Garnet: A rock-forming mineral petrochronometer

EF Baxter, MJ Caddick… - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Garnet could be the ultimate petrochronometer. Not only can you date it directly (with an
accuracy and precision that may surprise some), but it is also a common rock-forming and …

The effect of TiO2 and Fe2O3 on metapelitic assemblages at greenschist and amphibolite facies conditions: mineral equilibria calculations in the system K2O–FeO …

Holland, Worley - Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Mineral equilibria calculations in the system K2O–FeO–MgO–Al2O3–SiO2–H2O–TiO2–
Fe2O3 (KFMASHTO) using thermocalc and its internally consistent thermodynamic dataset …

The interpretation of reaction textures in Fe‐rich metapelitic granulites of the Musgrave Block, central Australia: constraints from mineral equilibria calculations in the …

RW White, R Powell, GL Clarke - Journal of metamorphic …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Fe‐rich metapelitic granulites of the Musgrave Block, central Australia, contain several
symplectic and coronal reaction textures that post‐date a peak S2 metamorphic assemblage …

Fluid-absent (dehydration) melting of biotite in metapelites in the early stages of crustal anatexis

NL Breton, AB Thompson - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 1988 - Springer
Experimental investigation of the fluid absent melting reaction biotite+ plagioclase+
A12SiOs+ quartz~ garnet+ K-feldspar+ melt at 10 kbar, indicated that melting began …

Application of new experimental and garnet Margules data to the garnet-biotite geothermometer

MJ Holdaway - American mineralogist, 2000 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Garnet-biotite experiments now exist from, FS),, PL), and, GE). Recent garnet Margules
parameters exist from, BA),, GA), and, MU). A comparison of ΔGmix plots for garnet binaries …

Valid garnet–biotite (GB) geothermometry and garnet–aluminum silicate–plagioclase–quartz (GASP) geobarometry in metapelitic rocks

CM Wu, BH Cheng - Lithos, 2006 - Elsevier
At present there are many calibrations of both the garnet–biotite (GB) thermometer and the
garnet–aluminum silicate–plagioclase–quartz (GASP) barometer that may confuse …

Multiple zircon growth during fast exhumation of diamondiferous, deeply subducted continental crust (Kokchetav Massif, Kazakhstan)

JÈ Hermann, D Rubatto, A Korsakov… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2001 - Springer
Diamondiferous rocks from the Kokchetav Massif, Kazakhstan, represent deeply subducted
continental crust. In order to constrain the age of ultra high pressure (UHP) metamorphism …

Status of thermobarometry in granitic batholiths

JL Anderson - Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the …, 1996 - cambridge.org
Most granitic batholiths contain plutons which are composed of low-variance mineral
assemblages amenable to quantification of the P–conditions that characterise emplacement …

Non-ideal mixing in the phlogopite-annite binary: constraints from experimental data on Mg− Fe partitioning and a reformulation of the biotite-garnet geothermometer

A Bhattacharya, L Mohanty, A Maji, SK Sen… - … to mineralogy and …, 1992 - Springer
The existing experimental data Ferry and Spear 1978; Perchuk and Lavrent'eva 1983 on
Mg− Fe partitioning between garnet and biotite are disparate. The underlying assumption of …

The granulite uncertainty principle: limitations on thermobarometry in granulites

BR Frost, T Chacko - The Journal of Geology, 1989 - journals.uchicago.edu
There are three geothermometers based on reversed experimental data and applicable to
granulites: the two-pyroxene, two-oxide, and garnet-clinopyroxene thermometers. All have …