Is erosion important to the structural and petrological evolution of mountain belts? The nature of active metamorphic massifs colocated with deep gorges in the syntaxes at each end of the Himalayan range, together with the magnitude of erosional fluxes that occur in these regions, leads us to concur with suggestions that erosion plays an integral role in collisional dynamics. At multiple scales...

Diagenesis includes all the biological, physical, chemical, biochemical, and physicochemical alterations that occur immediately after deposition prior to low-grade metamorphism [...]

The formation of porphyroblasts by replacement and displacement of pre-existing S surfaces is examined in the light of textural evidence displayed by sediments hornfelsed by the Bushveld Igneous Complex. Helicitic biotite, staurolite, and cordierite all show replacement and displacement textures, the former being more common. The evidence indicates that porphyroblasts arc capable of creating lo...

Malware is security threat that can break computer operation without knowing user’s information and it is difficult to identify its behavior. We can use signature based matching technique, encryption and decryption engines, metamorphism based method and KNN (Knearest neighbor) algorithm to identify the behavior of malware. Among all these techniques a pattern based technique is well famous for ...

Introduction: Equilibrated lithic clasts in unequilibrated chondrites probably represent thermal metamorphism in the early solar system before or during accretion of chondritic parent bodies. Lithic clasts with equilibrated features are rare in unequilibrated chondrites and their origins are not well-understood [1]. Recently, we observed an unusual lithic clast with thermal-metamorphosed featur...

Introduction: Reports of methane in the Martian atmosphere have spurred speculation about sources for that methane [1-3]. Discussion has centered on cometary/ meteoritic delivery, magmatic/mantle processes, UVbreakdown of organics, serpentinization of basalts, and generation of methane by living organisms. This paper describes an additional possibility: that buried organic remains from past lif...

Magmatism, ore genesis and metamorphism are commonly associated processes that define fundamental features of the Earth’s crustal evolution from earliest Precambrian to Phanerozoic [...]

INTRODUCTION The field trip today will concentrate mostly on the metamorphic effects on the Biwabik Iron Formation, at the Peter Mitchell mine of eastern Mesabi Iron Range, caused by intrusion of the nearby Mesoproterozoic Duluth Complex (1.1 Ga). The stratigraphy of the iron-formation that is used at this mine, and nearby mines, was mainly developed by Gundersen and Schwartz (1962) and is depi...

The Lower Llandoverian metasedimentary series of the Prades Mountains, in southwestern Catalonia, Spain, consists of interbedded massive feldspar beds, composed of almost pure anorthite, with chert, phosphate beds, sulfide-rich black shale, massive sulfides and minor calc-silicate beds. The sulfides mainly consist of pyrrhotite with minor chalcopyrite. The metasedimentary rocks are anomalously ...