isograd


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isograd

[′ī·sə‚grad]
(geology)
A line on a map joining those rocks comprising the same metamorphic grade.
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Coexisting chloritoid and staurolite and the staurolite-chlorite isograd from the Agnew Lake area, Ontario, Canada.
Classification, Character, and Origin of Textural Zoning in Porphyroblasts: Significance and Relation to Strain
The sillimanite-potash feldspar isograd in Western Maine, U.S.A.
Estudio petrogenetico de las rocas metamorficas del macizo de Floresta, Cordillera Oriental, Andes Colombianos
Rios and Takasu (1999) consider that at the staurolite isograd, [X.sub.grs] increases with increasing temperature, which is difficult to determine taking into account that garnet tends to be resorbed back to higher [X.sub.grs] concentrations as staurolite grows.
However, this reaction, which promotes the disappearance of staurolite also coincides with the appearance of kyanite (at pressure greater than about 2.5 kbar), and if we were to encounter this reaction in the field, it could be used to define the kyanite isograd.
Petrologic significance of Fe-rich staurolite in pelitic schists of the Silgara Formation, Santander Massif/Significado Petrologico de Estaurolita Rica en Fe en Esquistos Peliticos de la Formacion Silgara, Macizo de Santander
Taking into account that the Fe-Mg aluminosilicates are more Fe-rich at low-P than at middle-P, the mineral assemblages will probably loss the major KFMASH isograd producing reactions such as garnet-in and staurolite-in (Spear, 1993), which can explain the absence of garnet and staurolite.
Rios and coworkers (Rios, 1999, 2001, 2005; Rios and Takasu, 1999; Campos, 1999; Montenegro y Barragan, 1999; Garcia y Campos, 2000; Rios and Garcia, 2001; Castellanos, 2001; Mantilla et al, 2001, 2002, 2003; Gelvez and Marquez, 2002; Rios et al 2003a, 2003b, 2008a, 2008b; Cardona, 2003; Castellanos et al., 2004, 2008, 2010; Garcia et al, 2005; Gomez y Avila, 2006) have conducted in the last decade numerous studies on the geological evolution of the different metamorphic units outcropping in the Santander Massif, emphasizing on the metamorphic rocks of the Silgara Formation, modifying the classic scheme of metamorphic zones and isograds proposed by Ward et al.
The boundaries connecting the first appearance of a mineral and separating the zones are isograds (Tilley, 1924).
Un caso de metamorfismo regional tipo Buchan (andalucita-cordierita) en la region Norte del Macizo de Santander, Cordillera Oriental (Colombia)
The sharp offset in the andalusite-in isograd assists mapping the stratigraphic contact within the metamorphic aureole.
Metamorphic reactions and isograds related to this intrusion were documented by Jamieson et al.
Sedimentary and tectonic setting of a mass-transport slope deposit in the Halifax Group, Halifax Peninsula, Nova Scotia, Canada
Folding of metamorphic isograd surfaces above a footwall ramp would account for the observed trends.
DELINEATING THE EFFECTS OF LATE PALEOZOIC DEFORMATION OF MIDDLE PALEOZOIC METAMORPHIC ISOGRADS WITH GEOTHERMOBAROMETRY.
DELINEATING THE EFFECTS OF LATE PALEOZOIC DEFORMATION OF MIDDLE PALEOZOIC METAMORPHIC ISOGRADS WITH GEOTHERMOBAROMETRY
This zone lies in a fold nose and west limb of an iron formation on the south grid less than 1 km from the cordierite in metamorphic isograd.
Northwest Territories ... not only diamonds
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