There has been controversy over the number and timing of orogenies in the Precambrian Moine block in the Scottish Caledonides since the earliest radiometric dating in the 1960s. This work challenges a recent hypothesis, that this sector of the Laurentian margin was subjected to continuous crustal extension between .900 and 470 Ma. U–Pb dating (thermal ionization mass spectrometry) of titanite f...

in order to assess the presence or absence of fluids under peak metamorphic conditions within the inner aureole of the etive igneous complex in west scotland, eight suitable metabasic hornfels samples and one suitable pelitic hornfels were used to calculate water activities using a mineral equilibria. calculated activities for water are lower than unity in the pelitic sample and extremely low i...

Introduction: The age significance of isotope chronometers in basaltic shergottites is not agreed yet [1-3]. Bouvier et al. [3] argued that crystallization ages of shergottites were old (~4.1 Ga), and suggested that young ages of shergottites (i.e., ~180 Ma) represent reset by shock metamorphism. Baddeleyite (ZrO 2) is an important mineral for U-Pb dating of basaltic shergottites. By compressio...

Malware detection is a crucial aspect of software security. Malware typically recur to a variety of disguise and concealing techniques in order to avoid detection. Metamorphism is the ability of a program to mutate its form yet keeping unchanged its functionality and therefore its danger in case of malware. A major challenge in this field is the development of general automatic/systematic detec...

The development of regional metamorphism in areas of thickened continental crust is investigated in terms of the major controls on regional-scale thermal regimes. These are: the total radiogenic heat supply within the thickened crust, the supply of heat from the mantle, the thermal conductivity of the medium and the length and time scales of erosion of the continental crust. The orogenic episod...