Accretionary and collisional orogeny are often accompanied by the disturbance of geothermal gradient, leading to high-temperature metamorphism. High-temperature metamorphic rocks significant in their ability help reconstruction thermal histories orogenic belts. The Tianshan Orogenic Belt, at southwest margin Central Asian is a record long-term subduction–collision–post-collision process that ha...

The Sassandra-Cavally (SASCA) domain (SW Côte d’Ivoire) marks the transition between Archaean Kenema-Man craton and Palaeoproterozoic (Rhyacian) Baoule-Mossi terranes. It is characterized by tectonic juxtaposition of granulite-facies amphibolite-facies rocks. Migmatitic grey gneisses, garnet-cordierite-sillimanite migmatitic paragneisses garnet-staurolite-bearing micaschists reached peak pressu...

Cretaceous mafic dykes in the Moyar Shear Zone (MSZ) area, north Kerala, India, provide signatures to probe into the nature of their source and thereby the evolution of the Mesozoic lithospheric mantle beneath the South Indian Granulite Terrain (SIGT). Bulk of the dykes in northern parts of Kerala is broadly in spatial association with the shear system. Mafic dykes striking NE-SW, NWSE, NNW-SSE...

U-Pb analyses of zircon from ten samples of augen gneisses, eight mafic and intermediate metaigneous rocks and six metasediments from some tectonic domains along the Calabria-Peloritani Terrane (Southern Italy) contribute to knowledge of peri-Gondwanan evolution from Late-Proterozoic to Paleozoic times. All samples were equilibrated under amphibolite to granulite facies metamorphism during the ...

25 26 The Tropicana gold deposit is located adjacent to the margin of the Yilgarn craton in 27 the Albany–Fraser orogen, Western Australia. The deposit is hosted in granulite facies 28 quartzo-feldspathic gneisses of the Archean Tropicana Gneiss. Ore bodies comprise 29 biotite-pyrite alteration concentrated in shear zones that formed during NE-SW 30 shortening in the late Archean, and clearly p...