This Special Issue of Minerals, section Mineral Deposits, on the topic “Petrology and Mineralogy Pegmatite Deposits”, was inspired by currently growing scientific economic interest in pegmatites [...]

This report presents basic guidelines to help undergraduate first year geology students at the Federal University of Pernambuco Brazil. It reviews general aspects Mineralogy field trip presenting a comprehensive review on pegmatite classification, regional Seridó Pegmatitic Province (Rio Grande do Norte and Paraíba states) as well local geological three mines that are visited locally mapped. Du...

This paper is an outgrowth of the compilation of metamorphic information for the Canadian Shield in Ontario, and complements the recently compiled Metamorphic Map of the Canadian Shield. The paper contains a summary of the Archean metamorphic history of the Superior Province in Ontario on a subprovince basis, with an emphasis on the limitations of the existing data and the reasoning applied in ...

JULY 2005, GSA TODAY ABSTRACT The subduction factory processes raw materials such as oceanic sediments and oceanic crust and manufactures magmas and continental crust as products. Aqueous fluids, which are extracted from oceanic raw materials via dehydration reactions during subduction, dissolve particular elements and overprint such elements onto the mantle wedge to generate chemically distinc...