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Granulite from
Germany


Locality type:Country
Classification
Type:Granulite
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Validity:Believed Valid
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Mineral Data:Click here to view Granulite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1077128
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1077128:6
GUID (UUID V4):d81522b5-04e9-4018-9cdf-a7c96cbf21da
Localities for Granulite in this Region
Granulite outcrops, Bad Berneck im Fichtelgebirge, Bayreuth District, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany
Granulite occurrence, Engeln, Kempenich, Brohltal, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Granulite outcrop, Waldheim, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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Geowissenschaften, Universitā‚¬at Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany Editorial handling: J. Kosler Summary The type-locality...granulites from the Granulitgebirge of Saxony, Germany, are rocks of broadly granitic composition containing...such as greenschist, amphibolite, eclogite and granulite, when these names are also those of facies. The...term ā€˜granulite faciesā€™ to the facies scheme has led to the very common usage of the term ā€˜granuliteā€™ for...for any rock formed at granulite facies conditions. This is extremely unfortunate because, as will be
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Fluorapatite-monazite relationships in granulite-facies metapelites, Schwarzwald, southwest Germany D. E. HARLOV1,*, H....GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany Mineralogisches Institut, UniversitaĢˆt Heidelberg... Im Neuenheimer Feld 236, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany [Received 29 April 2007; Accepted 23 July 2007]...set of granulite-facies metapelites collected from the Variscan Schwarzwald, southern Germany. Fluorapatite...dissolution in the partial granitic melt formed during granulite-facies metamorphism. Monazite inclusions and rim
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at Potsdam, Postfach 601553, D-14415 Potsdam, Germany (obrien@geo.uni-potsdam.de) ABSTRACT High-pressure...the high-pressure amphibolite ā„ high-pressure granulite ļ¬eld at around 700ā€“850 C, 1.0ā€“1.4 GPa. Importantly...disequilibrium; geothermobarometry; high-pressure granulite; mesoperthite; reaction-texture. INTRODUCTION...type locality of the Saxonian Granulitgebirge, Germany (Weiss, 1803) are mainly light-coloured rocks,...However, modern usage of the term granulite for any rock of the granulite facies (e.g. Eskola, 1952), rather
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St Andrews on March 7, 2015 Geochemistry of granulite-facies lower crustal xenoliths: implications for...Eifel, West Germany H.-G. Stosch, G.W. Lugmair & H.A. Seck SUMMARY: Mafic meta-igneous granulite facies xenoliths...understood in terms of igneous fractionation or granulite-facies metamorphism. These features are best explained...ages. A Sm-Nd isochron for minerals from one granulite resulted in an unexpectedly young age of 172 +...the Mesozoic. Introduction Petrography Mafic granulite-facies lower crustal xenoliths are found in Pleistocene
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pyroxenite from the Variscan Granulitgebirge, Germanyā€  Thomas MĆ¼ller1,*, Hans-Joachim Massonne2 and Arne...Kristallchemie, UniversitƤt Stuttgart, D-70174 Stuttgart, Germany 1 2 Abstract We present a numerical modeling...garnet pyroxenite from the Granulitgebirge, Saxony/Germany. The studied sample contains remarkable exsolution...low-grade metasedimentary rocks surrounding the granulite massif as predicted by thermal modeling. Exhumation...complex of high-pressure granulite in the Variscan Granulitgebirge (Saxony/Germany). This metamorphic complex
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1525-1314.2007.00758.x Challenges in high-pressure granulite metamorphism in the era of pseudosections: reaction...Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24 ā„ 25, D-14476 Golm, Germany (obrien@geo.uni-potsdam.de) ABSTRACT High-pressure...words: clinopyroxene-bearing granulite; disequilibrium; high-pressure granulite; mesoperthite; reaction texture...crust correspond to those of the eclogite and granulite facies and one of the most spectacular areas for...Bohemian Massif is not only the type locality for granulite (Weiss, 1803) but is also well known for widespread
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new zircon growth within melt rich layers of granulite-facies lenses versus solid-state recrystallization...new zircon growth within melt rich layers of granulite-facies lenses versus solid-state recrystallization...Mineralogie, Brennhausgasse 14, D-09599 Freiberg, Germany. E-mail addresses: tichomir@mineral.tu-freiberg...Altenhoeferallee 1, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany. E-mail address: gerdes@em.uni-frankfurt.de ACCEPTED...amphibolite-facies felsic rocks. In the felsic granulite, melt rich parts and restite form alternating
Report (chapter)
trum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, D- 144 73 Potsdam, Germany (e-mail: lotte@gfz-potsdam.de) 2Institut ffir Mineralogie...Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstr. 9, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany 3Institut ffir Geologie, Geophysik und Geoinformatik...FU Berlin, Malteserstr. 74-100, D-12249 Berlin, Germany 4Geophysikalisches Institut, Universitdt Karlsruhe...Karlsruhe, Hertzstr. 16, D-76187 Karlsruhe, Germany 5Present address." Bundesanstalt ffir Geowissenschaften...Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe, D-30631 Hannover, Germany Abstract: Major bodies of high-pressure (HP) rocks in the
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However, the peak and post-peak history of some granulite bodies differs from this Moldanubian-type evolution...common interpretation of this age as dating the HP granulite phase or the alternative one attributing it to...assemblages, reflect rapid exhumation of the HP granulite complexes of the Bohemian Massif. It is still...buoyancy-driven exhumation, the others postulate granulite formation due to the homogeneous crustal thickening...Bohemian Massif (BM) shows that there are numerous granulite exposures (Fig. 1). Predominant high-pressure
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Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Editorial handling: V. JanousĢŒek Summary Several granulite terrains are exposed...investigation of such mineral relics in a felsic granulite from the Granulitgebirge rather points to pressures...a consequence, considerable volumes of felsic granulite could have reached shallow crustal levels (corresponding...(corresponding to 3 to 4 kbar), conditions documented in granulite bodies in the north-western Bohemian Massif. ...exhumation 179 The age of this high-pressure (HP) granulite metamorphism is around 340 Ma both in the Saxothuringian
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Geoinstitut, Universit(it Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany (e-mail: Patrick. Obrien @ uni-bayreuth, de) Abstract:...extremely rapid exhumation because the fault-bounded, granulite-peridotite-bearing tectonic units are also cut...and lower crust seems inescapable if the hot granulite-peridotite complexes were exhumed and cooled as...existed (Goldfuss & Bischof 1817) and the term 'granulite' was actually coined for the dominant rock type.../~ ZE\ []~ Palaeozoic of Barrandian Basin GERMANY Mari~nskg L~zn(~Complex 9 a e g e ~ ~ .,,,~
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Introduction The first scientific description of granulite is 250 years old. Its author, Johann Heinrich...rock that cropped out at his property. Thus the granulite became for decades, thanks to Justiā€™s work (von...Moldanubian Unit, with emphasis on the NaĢmeĢŒsĢŒtā€™ granulite massif, including the felsic granulites of the...JanousĢŒek and J. KosĢŒler Fig. 1. Banded felsic granulite, Yspertal quarry, Lower Austria. University of...Variscides; ā€“ Mechanisms and duration of the Variscan granulite-facies metamorphism in Central Europe, with particular
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case study from the Siebengebirge Volcanic Field, Germany K. P. Schneider1,2 Ā· M. Kirchenbaur2 Ā· R. O. C...Siebengebirge Volcanic Field (SVF) in western Germany is part of the Cenozoic Central European Volcanic...UniversitƤt Bonn, Meckenheimer Allee 169, 53115 Bonn, Germany 2 Institut fĆ¼r Geologie und Mineralogie, UniversitƤt...zu Kƶln, ZĆ¼lpicher StraƟe 49a, 50674 Cologne, Germany 207 Pb/204Pb compositions requiring the presence...Siebengebirge Volcanic Field (SVF) is located in western Germany within the Rhenish Massif and is part of the widespread
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m 342 [CH] Pb and O isotope systematics in granulite facies xenoliths, French Massif Central: implications...O isotope data are represented for a suite of granulite facies xenoliths found within Tertiary alkaline...+8.6 to +12.0%o. The 2Ā°6pb/2Ā°4pb ratios of the granulite xenoliths are between 17.77 and 19.19, 2Ā°7pb//zĀ°4pb...chemical composition because of its inaccessibility. Granulite facies xenoliths which are brought to the surface...combined with Sr and N d isotopes [7]. The mafic granulite xenoliths are considered to be a product of basalt
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high-pressure granulites from Tirschheim, Saxon Granulite Massif, Germany: P-T-t path and geotectonic implications...UniversitƤt Potsdam, Postfach 60 15 53, D-14415 Potsdam, Germany *Corresponding author, e-mail: roetzler@geo.uni-potsdam...Telegrafenberg, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany 3Hildegrimstrasse 8, D-45239 Essen, Germany Abstract: The Saxon granulites...granulites, the type granulite locality, were deeply buried, extremely heated and then rapidly exhumed during...felsic granulite, and garnet, omphacite, titanite, ternary feldspar and quartz in mafic granulite. A minimum
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Western Erzgebirge (Central European Variscides, Germany) Marion Tichomirowa 1, * , Axel Gerdes 2 , Manuel... Brennhausgasse 14, D-09599 Freiberg/Sachsen, Germany Institut fĆ¼r Geowissenschaften, Goethe UniversitƤt...Altenhoeferallee 1, D-60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany; gerdes@em.uni-frankfurt.de Saxonian Geological...Survey, HalsbrĆ¼cker Str. 31a, D-09599 Freiberg, Germany; Manuel.Lapp@smul.sachsen.de (M.P.); leo-freib@t-online...four largest plutons from the Western Erzgebirge (Germany) for the geochemistry of bulk rocks and autocrystic
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Geowissenschaften der Universitgit, D-35390 Giessen, Germany (e-mail." wolfgang:/ranke@geo.uni-giessen.de) 2Institut...Technische Universitgit Darmstadt, D-64287 Darmstadt, Germany Abstract: The Saxo-Thuringian Belt on the northern...allochthon is most clearly documented in the Saxonian Granulite Dome, in which HP granulites are juxtaposed against...With the exception of one small occurrence of granulite facies in the Miinchberg Klippe (Kleinschrodt...Devonian eclogite facies metamorphism, often with a granulite facies overprint (see reviews by Franke et al
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Telegrafenberg, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany Received 25 February 2013; accepted in revised...Erzgebirgeā€“Vogtland, the Saxon Granulite Massif, and Thuringia (Germany) formed by anatectic melting of...University of Bremen, Leobener Str. 2, D-28359 Bremen, Germany. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2014.01.018 0016-7037/Ɠ...Saxo-Thuringian Zone of Germany (Thuringia, Erzgebirgeā€“Vogtland, Saxon Granulite Massif) and compare them...very-high temperature metamorphism in the Saxon Granulite Massif (Fig. 1; Willner et al., 1997; RoĢˆtzler
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Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24, 14476, Golm, Germany *Corresponding author, e-mail: rtzlr@gfz-potsdam...UniversitaĢˆt Bonn, Poppelsdorfer Schloss, 53115, Bonn, Germany 3 Present address, GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam...Telegrafenberg B122, 14473 Potsdam, Germany Abstract: The high-pressure (HP) granulite metamorphism in Variscan...garnet-clinopyroxene granulite. Reaction textures in a feldspathic prismatine granulite showing a transition...multi-equilibrium calculations for a garnet-two-pyroxene granulite, where garnet has re-equilibrated with a twop
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The major rocks of the crater are composed of granulite, hornblendite, gneiss, tremolite marble, and marble...layer of polymict breccia composed of clasts of granulite, gneiss, hornblendite, and fragments of glass...with multiple sets of PDFs is found in clasts of granulite that consist of mainly quartz and feldspar, and...from ļ¬ve thin sections made from the clasts of granulite of polymict breccia recovered at the depth of...composed of the Proterozoic metamorphic rocks of granulite (i.e., leucoleptiteā€“ā€“Chen et al. 2010a), hornblendite
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compositions for three suites of well-characterized granulite facies xenoliths from a diversity of crustal settings...Queensland, Australia and the Eifel volcanics, West Germany) are presented here. All three suites plot to the...similar to the published Pb results of other mafic granulite xenoliths. Correlations between Sr, Nd and Pb...isotopic characteristics of most Precambrian granulite facies terrains. Whereas the Nd isotopes reflect...the lower crust using the data for granulite xenoliths and granulite terrains. This, combined with an upper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Springer-Verlag 1990 Granulite facies lower crustal xenoliths from the Eifel, West Germany: petrological and...Strasse 49, D-5000 K61n 1, Federal Republic of Germany Received December4, 1989 / Accepted March 2, 1990...and geochemical data for 16 mafic meta-igneous, granulite facies lower crustal xenoliths from the East Eifel...probably accompanied by crustal assimilation, (2) granulite facies metamorphism, (3) a decrease in temperature...Saarstrasse 23, 6500 Mainz, Federal Republic of Germany Offprint requests to: G. Loock sured for xenoliths
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Bayreuth, Postfach 1012.51, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany Abstract Eclogites from different parts of the...(640-715ā€C, < 19.5 kbar) was followed by a weak granulite facies stage, with the formation of orthopyroxene...15 kbar), many eclogites show well developed granulite facies overprints with widespread orthopyroxene...zoning in garnet of rocks that have experienced granulite facies temperatures is only possible if the time...as having been at greenschist, amphibolite or granulite (high-, medium- or lowpressure) facies conditions
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1GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany (e-mail: Romer@ gfz-potsdam.de) 2Institut fiir...Geowissenschaften, Universitiit Potsdam, D-14415 Potsdam, Germany (e-mail: roetzler @geo. uni-potsdam, de) Abstract:...garnet-clinopyroxene granulite at Tirschheim and a reference sample at Waldheim (Saxon Granulite Massif, Germany) endured...data on four mafic granulites from the Saxon Granulite Massif. All four samples have synchronously experienced...Geological setting of the Saxon granulites The Saxon Granulite Complex and overlying structural units of lower
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partially broken down during an overprinting granulite-facies metamorphism: implications for the Sm-Nd...Recrystallisation of zircons during granulite facies metamorphism (Germany, Central Erzgebirge) M. TICHOMIROWA...PT conditions of 700Ā–800 Ā°C and 13Ā–20 kbar for granulite gneisses, whereas in adjacent muscovite gneisses...Tichomirowa, 2003). Near spherical zircons from granulite gneisses yield 207Pb/206Pb-evaporation ages of...as the age of metamorphic zircon growth during granulite peak conditions (Krƶner Ā– Willner, 1995; Mingram
 
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