Incipient charnockites from southern India: The role of brines

Southern India and Sri-Lanka are the places where “incipient charnockites”, i.e. the local transformation of amphibolite-facies gneisses into orthopyroxene-bearing, igneous looking charnockites, have been discovered in the early sixties. The fact that some incipient charnockites occur along a networ...

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Main Authors: Jacques L.R. Touret, Robert C. Newton, Michel Cuney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-09-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987119300672