Extensional exhumation of a high-pressure granulite terrane in Payer Land, Greenland Caledonides: structural, petrologic, and geochronologic evidence from metapelites

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Gilotti, Jane A, Elvevold, Synnøve
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2002
• Subjects: Greenland; Payer Land; East Greenland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e02-019; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e02-019

The Payer Land gneiss complex is unique among the mostly amphibolite-facies, mid-crustal gneiss complexes in the East Greenland Caledonides due to its well-preserved, regional high-pressure (HP) granulite-facies metamorphism. High-pressure – high-temperature (HP–HT) assemblages are recognized in maf...