The Sierra Nevada mountain range consists of a vast array of different geologic features. One of these features is in the form of what are known as roof pendants. Roof pendants span through the central and southern portions of the eastern Sierra Nevada. Representing the geologic history of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California, metamorphic roof pendants offer a glimpse into the past. T...

The Big Jim complex is a concentrically zoned ultramafic to felsic plutonic complex which intruded the pelitic Chiwaukum schist. Most of the major plutonic rock types (from websterite through hornblendite, gabbronorite, hornblende gabbro and diorite, to granodiorite) enclose harzburgite and metaperidotite xenoliths similar to foliated metaperidotite lenses included in the Chiwaukum schist. The ...

Experimental studies show that K replacement of Na in triclinic plagioclase under hydrothermal conditions results directly in triclinic microcline without forming intermediate monoclinic orthoclase. These experiments bring laboratory and field evidence into agreement for the K-metasomatic origin of granites which contain exclusively microcline as the potash feldspar. Such replacements of a more...

The Takomkane Pro ject is a multiyear bed rock map ping pro gram ini ti ated by the BC Geo log i cal Sur vey in 2005. This pro gram will con cen trate on Me so zoic arc vol ca nic and plutonic rocks of the Quesnel Terrane in the vi cin ity of the Takomkane batholith, which strad dles the Bonaparte Lake (92P) and Quesnel Lake (93A) map sheets (Fig. 1). Pre vi ous bed rock maps of the area are ba...

Shea, M. and Foland, K.A., 1986. The Marysvale Natural Analog Study: Preliminary oxygen isotope relations. In: N.A. Chapman and J.A.T. Smellie (Guest-Editors), Natural Analogues to the Conditions around a Final Repository for High-level Radioactive Waste. Chem. Geol., 55: 281--295. Rocks of and around the Marysvale mining area in central Utah, U.S.A., have experienced massive, subsolidus hydrot...

Abstract Apatite is a powerful research tool because it common in various rocks and incorporates many chemical elements. Understanding how elements partition between apatite melt the controls on are critical for applications of apatite. It has been recently proposed that MgO content magmatic proportional to melt, highlighting potential importance this oxide as parameter. A comprehensive compila...

S U M M A R Y Many unresolved questions in geodynamics revolve around the physical behaviour of the two-phase system of a silicate melt percolating through and interacting with a tectonically deforming host rock. Well-accepted equations exist to describe the physics of such systems and several previous studies have successfully implemented various forms of these equations in numerical models. T...

Introduction: In the Noachian, Mars’ crust was deeply affected by impact crater gardening [1], and subsequent hydrothermal alteration. While water was present in the Martian crust [2,3], frequent impacts [4,5] provided prominent heat sources that drove hydrothermal systems. Those systems were scattered randomly over the planet’s surface and variable in size, but generally spanned the diameter o...