Retrograded eclogites of the Richarddalen Complex, NW Svalbard : petrology and P/T-conditions

• Main Author: Hesbøl, Ros-Mari
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen 1996
• Subjects: Svalbard; geography; geology; retrograded eclogites; Richarddalen Complex; petrology; P/T-conditions; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Richarddalen
• Online Access: http://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/record/2365911

At least three terranes have been identified in the Svalbard Caledonides, each one having independent structures and tectonothermal evolution. On Biskayerhalvöya in the Northwestern Terrane, eclogites, located within deformed igneous basement rocks, have been dated by the U-Pb zircon method to c. 62...