Definition of Granulites. Meaning of Granulites. Synonyms of Granulites

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Definition of Granulites

Granulite
Granulite Gran"u*lite, n. [From Granule.] (Geol.) A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.

Meaning of Granulites from wikipedia

- interest to geologists because many granulites represent samples of the deep continental crust. Some granulites experienced decompression from deep in...
- Survey strongly discourages the use of granulite as a classification for rock metamorphosed to the granulite facies. Instead, such rock will often be...
- It is essentially metamorphic and occurs with gneisses, schists and granulites, especially in the Scandinavian peninsula, where it is regarded as being...
- though in these countries they have been mostly described as pyroxene granulites, pyroxene gneisses, anorthosites, or other names. They are typically of...
- as granulites in the lower continental crust at high thermal gradients. This leads to significant extraction of hydrous felsic melts from granulite-facies...
- The Lapland Granulite Belt is an elongate and arcuate zone of granulite rock in the Cap of the North spanning areas within Norway, Finland and Murmansk...
- Ca-Mg-silicates). Ecologites and blueschists are ****ociated with subduction zones. Granulites are ****ociated with volcanic arcs. Metamorphic series Metamorphism Petrogenetic...
- creation of Pangaea and Rodinia. Secular trends such as carbonatites, granulites, eclogites, and greenstone belt deformation events are all possible indicators...
- have been faulted southward over continental crust composed of Archean granulites of the Indian Plate during the Cenozoic collision of India with Asia....
- Barnett, R. L., 1984, Sapphirine bearing granulites from the Sipiwesk Lake area of the late Archean Pikwitonei granulite terrain, Manitoba, Canada: Contributions...