Microdiamonds from the Akluilâk minette dykes (Nunavut, Canada) are similar to diamonds formed in subducted metamorphic rocks. High concentrations of unaggregated nitrogen and positive delta(15)N suggest that the microdiamonds formed within rocks subducted to ultrahigh pressures before being sampled by the minette magma 1.8 billion years ago. This ultrahigh pressure metamorphism in North Americ...

The studied serpentinites occur as isolated masses, imbricate slices of variable thicknesses and as small blocks or lenses incorporated in the sedimentary matrix of the mélange. They are thrusted over the associated island arc calc-alkaline metavolcanics and replaced by talccarbonates along shear zones. Lack of thermal effect of the serpentinites upon the enveloping country rocks, as well as th...

The Ellsworth belt is one of several fault-bounded blocks exposed along the southeastern coast Maine that formed within Ganderia. New ID-TIMS U–Pb geochronological data integrated with field relationships provide additional insights into timing magmatism and deformation in belt. deformed Lamoine Granite was selected for zircon analysis to: (i) establish protolith age; (ii) direct temporal const...

A chloritoid schist from the Medvednica Mts. (Croatia, Zagorje-Mid-Transdanubian zone) is part of metasedimentary succession a Palaeozoic-Mesozoic Metamorphic Complex. The studied samples show mineral association chloritoid, chlorite, quartz and white mica. P-T pseudosection, combined with modal chemical isopleths, classical thermobarometric calculations yield peak metamorphic conditions 0.8 – ...