Petrographical study of detrital and authigenic minerals from the Ajali Formation in Benin flank Anambra Basin was carried out with aim interpreting textural characteristics alteration patterns. Samples were collected Ayowgiri sand quarry site along Fugar-Agenebode road where good exposures Sandstone occurred. Heavy concentrated using bromoform according to standard procedures. The heavy minera...

Martian meteorite ALH84001 (ALH) is the oldest known igneous rock from Mars and has been used to constrain its early history. Lutetium-hafnium (Lu-Hf) isotope data for ALH indicate an igneous age of 4.091 +/- 0.030 billion years, nearly coeval with an interval of heavy bombardment and cessation of the martian core dynamo and magnetic field. The calculated Lu/Hf and Sm/Nd (samarium/neodymium) ra...

3 INTRODUCTION 4 Aim and approach 4 Structural domains in the Swedish part of the Baltic Shield defined by deformation zones and formline patterns 4 Age and character of high-T deformation zones in the Baltic Shield 6 GEOLOGY OF EAST CENTRAL SWEDEN 7 Rocks and ages 7 Metamorphism 8 Typical features of low pressure-high temperature metamorphism 9

Silicic volcanic rocks are associated with most, if not all, continental ×ood basalt provinces and volcanic rifted margins, where they can form substantial parts of the eruptive stratigraphy and have eruptive volumes >104 km3. Poor preservation of silicic volcanic rocks following kilometer-scale uplift and denudation of the volcanic rifted margins, however, can result in only deeper level struc...

Introduction: It is generally accepted that in addition to igneous olivine grains, chondrules contain relict olivine grains that did not crystallize in situ [e.g., 1]. Chondrule melts cooled relatively fast [e.g., 2], which aided in the preservation of relict grains. One type of relict olivine grain, found both inside chondrules and as isolated olivine grains outside chondrules, and found both ...