Granulites and Crustal Evolution

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Petrology and Geochemistry of Granulites, Clermont-Ferrand, France, September 5-9, 1988

Inhalt

The NATO ARW granulite conference: a report.- Crustal Evolution.- Genesis of continental crust: evidence from island arcs, granulites, and exospheric processes.- The granulite - granite connexion.- Heat, fluids, and melting in the granulite facies.- Granites, granulites, and crustal differentiation.- Regional Syntheses.- Europe.- Evolution of the lower crust in the Ivrea zone: a model based on isotopic and geochemical data.- The granulite belt of Lapland.- North and South America.- A model for the granulite-migmatite association in the Archean basement of southwestern Montana.- Multi stage late Archaean granulite facies metamorphism in Northern Labrador, Canada.- Archean tectonic setting of granulite terranes of the Superior Province, Canada, a view from the bottom.- The granulites of the Jequié complex and Atlantic Coast mobile belt, Southern Bahia, Brazil - An expression of Archean/Early Proterozoic plate convergence.- From Africa to India.- Pressure-Temperature-Time paths of granulite metamorphism and uplift, Zambesi belt, N.E. Zimbabwe.- Thermal history and tectonic setting of the Namaqualand granulites, Southern Africa: clues to Proterozoic crustal development.- The granulite-facies rocks of the Limpopo belt, Southern Africa.- Crustal evolution of the granulites of Madagascar.- Nature and scale of fluid-rock exchange in granulite grade rocks of Sri Lanka: a stable isotope study.- The granulite terrane of the Nilgiri Hills (Southern India): characterization of high-grade metamorphism.- Fluids and Petrological Equilibria.- Granulites of Satnuru and Madras: A study in different behaviour of fluids.- Scapolite phase equilibria: additional constraints on the role of CO2 in granulite genesis.- Synmetamorphic fluid inclusions in granulites.- Fluid inclusions in granulites: peak vs. retrograde formation.- Thermometry and barometry of mafic granulites based on garnet - clinopyroxene - plagioclase - quartz assemblages.- Geochemistry and Geophysics.- Geochronology in Granulites.- Origin of granulites: geochemical constraints from Archean granulite facies rocks of the Sino-Korean craton, China.- The oxygen isotope composition of lower crustal granulite xenoliths.- Ionprobe investigation of rare earth element distributions and partial melting of metasedimentary granulites.- Geochemistry of intermediate/- to high-pressure granulites.- Thermal data and crustal structure. Role of granites and the depleted lower crust.- Some thermal aspects of granulite history.- Key word/subject index.