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https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-523-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-35-523-2023
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19 Jul 2023
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Some thoughts about eclogites and related rocks

Michael Brown

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Partial melting of amphibole–clinozoisite eclogite at the pressure maximum (eclogite type locality, Eastern Alps, Austria)
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Petrological study of an eclogite-facies metagranite from the Champtoceaux Complex (La Picherais, Armorican Massif, France)
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Corundum-bearing and spinel-bearing symplectites in ultrahigh-pressure eclogites record high-temperature overprint and partial melting during slab exhumation
Pan Tang and Shun Guo
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Larry Tuttle and Darrell J. Henry
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Detrital garnet petrology challenges Paleoproterozoic ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism in western Greenland
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The past 40 years have been a golden age for eclogite studies, supported by an ever wider range of instrumentation and enhanced computational capabilities, linked with ongoing developments in the determination of the temperatures and pressures of metamorphism and the age of these rocks. These data have been used to investigate the spatiotemporal distribution of metamorphism and secular change but not without controversy in relation to the emergence of plate tectonics on Earth.