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  <dc:contributor>S.D. Boger</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>C.J.L. Wilson</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>A.F. Corvino</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2007</dc:date>
  <dc:description>The pressure (P) and temperature (T) conditions during metamorphism of a metapelitic sillimanite-garnet 
gneiss from Clemence Massif, Antarctic Prince Charles Mountains, are estimated using mineral abundance information 
and petrogenetic P–T pseudosections computed in the chemical system MnO–N&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;O–CaO–K&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;O–FeO–MgO–Al&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt;–
SiO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;–H&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;O–TiO&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;–Fe&lt;sub&gt;2&lt;/sub&gt;O&lt;sub&gt;3&lt;/sub&gt; (MnNCKFMASHTO). Calculated mineral equilibria for the appropriate bulk composition predict that the observed assemblage, of K-feldspar–garnet–quartz–sillimanite–biotite–ilmenite–rutile, stabilised at 
approximately 8–9 kbar and 760–790ºC. Reaction microstructures are rare, but the preservation of relic spinel 
inclusions in garnet indicates an earlier low-P, high-T component and possible anticlockwise path.</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>10.3133/ofr20071047SRP062</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>U.S. Geological Survey</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Metamorphic conditions during formation of a metapelitic sillimanite-garnet  gneiss from Clemence Massif, Prince Charles Mountains, East Antarctica</dc:title>
  <dc:type>reports</dc:type>
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