Dulan, North Qaidam UHP Terrane, Haixi Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai (Chinghai) Province, China

Eclogites, hosted in amhibolite-facies para- and orthogneisses of the Northern Qaidam Caledonian Ultra high pressure (UHP) Terrane. In the Dulan area, the eclogite-bearing terrane extends for about 10 km from south to north, and is subdivided into a north belt and a south belt.

Ref.:
- Jingsui Yang, Shuguang Song, Zhiqin Xu, Fulai Liu, Shigenori Maruyama, Liou, J.G., Jianxin Zhang, Cailai Wu, Haibing Li, and Rendeng Shi (2001): Discovery of Coesite in the North Qaidam Caledonian ultrahigh-high pressure (UHP-HP) metamorphic belt on the northeastern Qinghai-Tibet plateau. Presented at the 11th Annual V.M. Goldschmidt Conference, Abstract no. 3088.
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