Plate tectonic forcing leads to changes in the physical conditions that affect the lithosphere.
In response to such changes, notably the local temperature (T) and pressure (P), rocks …

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 …

Ultrahigh temperature (UHT) metamorphism is the most thermally extreme form of regional
crustal metamorphism, with temperatures exceeding 900° C. UHT crustal metamorphism is …

Pseudosection modelling is rapidly becoming an essential part of a petrologist's toolkit and
often forms the basis of interpreting the tectonothermal evolution of a rock sample, outcrop …

Abstract The Trans-Hudson orogen of North America is a circa 1,800 million year old, middle
Palaeoproterozoic continental collisional belt. The orogen may represent an ancient …

This study presents a new laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-
ICPMS) based U-Pb geochronometric method for dating grossular-andradite (grandite) …

Partial melting of deep continental crust may occur during either prograde heating or
decompression. Although the effect of temperature on crustal melting has been widely …

Shear zones play a major role in the deformation of the crust at a variety of scales, as
expressions of strain localization during orogeny and rifting, and also as reactivated …

Numerical simulation of the evolution of stranded diffusion profiles in partially resorbed
garnet crystals from the aureole of the Makhavinekh Lake Pluton, Labrador, yields …

Garnet is one of the most robust and ubiquitous minerals that record element zoning during
crustal metamorphism. In addition to major elements, zoning in trace elements can provide a …