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Constraining Prograde Metamorphic Paths In Archean High-Grade Garnet-Bearing Lithologies From The Eastern Beartooth Mountains, Montana, Usa, Larry Fisher Cliff-Tuttle Jr
Constraining Prograde Metamorphic Paths In Archean High-Grade Garnet-Bearing Lithologies From The Eastern Beartooth Mountains, Montana, Usa, Larry Fisher Cliff-Tuttle Jr
LSU Master's Theses
Prograde metamorphic pressures and temperatures of Archean high-grade garnet-bearing lithologies from the eastern Beartooth Mountains of Montana provide an important constraint on the tectonometamorphic history of this terrane and the early Earth in general. A particularly useful means to approximate prograde metamorphic conditions is examining entrapment conditions of garnet mineral inclusions during garnet growth. Lithologies of the eastern Beartooth Mountains are well-suited to this approach because of the presence of abundant mineral inclusions within garnet porphyroblasts. Consequently, prograde metamorphic pressures and temperatures in the Beartooth Mountains, conditions that have only been broadly constrained previously, can be more accurately determined and …