Paired metamorphic belts are sets of parallel linear rock units that display contrasting metamorphic mineral assemblages. These paired belts develop along...

high-temperature metamorphic rocks is called a paired metamorphic belt. The main islands of Japan show three distinct paired metamorphic belts, corresponding...

Evolution of metamorphic belts. Journal of Petrology 2, 277–311. Oxburgh, E.R.; et al. (February 10, 1971). "Origin of Paired Metamorphic Belts and Crustal...

and anticlockwise metamorphic P-T-t paths are found in paired metamorphic belts at convergent plate boundaries. Paired metamorphic belts display two contrasting...

zone produce their own distinctive regional metamorphic effects, characterized by paired metamorphic belts. The pioneering work of George Barrow on regional...

tin belt) Paired metamorphic belts Belt (mechanical), a looped strip of material used to link multiple rotating shafts Conveyor belt, a device for transporting...

plates were completely subducted and their remains have formed paired metamorphic belts. The most recent complete subduction of a plate was that of the...

convergent plate boundary Paired metamorphic belts – Sets of juxtaposed linear rock units that display contrasting metamorphic mineral assemblages Ring...

lithic sandstones. Paired metamorphic belts, in which a belt of high-temperature, low-pressure metamorphism is located parallel to a belt of low-temperature...

tectonics and meteorites. In the 1960s he introduced the concept of paired metamorphic belts. In 1973 Miyashiro challenged the common conceptions of ophiolites...

arc rocks. Furthermore, the presence of structural thrust belts and paired metamorphic belts are also hallmarks of subduction dynamics and subsequent environmental...

with other sulfides or oxides in quartz veins, sedimentary rock, and metamorphic rock, as well as in coal beds and as a replacement mineral in fossils...

meteorites found on Earth. Vesta's surface, dominated by basaltic and metamorphic material, has a denser composition than Ceres's. Its surface is marked...

theory. Their great significance relates to their occurrence within mountain belts such as the Alps and the Himalayas, where they document the existence of...

complex tectonic processes brought about the juxtaposition of older metamorphic basement rocks with ophiolite suite of rocks later superposed by younger...

Canadian Shield is a large area of Archean through Proterozoic igneous and metamorphic rocks in eastern Canada and north central and northeastern United States...

a geological structure known as the New England Fold Belt, a tectonic accretion of metamorphic terranes and mid-crustal granitoid intrusions, flanked...

Thomson, M.R.A.; Crame, J.A.; Thomson, J.W. (eds.). Late Proterozoic paired metamorphic complexes in East Antarctica, with special reference to the tectonic...

black streak. Small grains of magnetite are very common in igneous and metamorphic rocks. The chemical IUPAC name is iron(II,III) oxide and the common chemical...

New Caledonia includes all major rock types (igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic), which here range in age from ~290 million years old (Ma) to recent...

west by an older sequence of largely low-grade metamorphic and granitic rocks of the Lachlan Fold Belt. Northwards these rocks pass into the Hunter Valley...

found mostly in the west, Proterozoic fold belts in the centre and Phanerozoic sedimentary basins, metamorphic and igneous rocks in the east. The Australian...

biotite-calcite-quartz schist, and thin layers of quartzose marble. These metamorphic rocks appear to be the result of the metamorphism of Middle to Early...

hypothesis to explain the belts of negative gravity anomalies that were found near island arcs. According to this hypothesis, the belts were zones of downwelling...

decades. Hildebrand's team tested the samples, which clearly showed shock-metamorphic materials. A team of California researchers surveying satellite images...

Brazil, and North Korea.[citation needed] Graphite deposits are of metamorphic origin, found in association with quartz, mica, and feldspars in schists...

analysis Activity recognition Protein folding Sequence classification Metamorphic virus detection Sequence motif discovery (DNA and proteins) DNA hybridization...

slate or schist. Slate is layered and prone to flaking, and schist is a metamorphic rock containing large, randomly distributed mineral grains. Both are...

deceive. Apatite is very common as an accessory mineral in igneous and metamorphic rocks, where it is the most common phosphate mineral. However, occurrences...

Melange Belts (remnants of a mid-Cretaceous subduction zone); the RMFZ is where the Seattle Uplift is being forced against the Western Melange belt To the...