Dear friends,
Apology for multiple posting. I am looking for reference on monazite dissolution and reprecipitation at the onset of partial melting in metapelites. I am particularly interested in studies which documented new growth of monazite, coinciding with muscovite dehydration melting. Are there specific compositional attributes in monazite and associated minerals which are suggested to constrain the mentioned melting process? Is it possible to relate an increased cheralite content in the newly produced monazite with the participation of plagioclase in the muscovite melting reaction,
muscovite + plagioclase + quartz →K-feldsparss + aluminosilicate + melt?
With best wishes,
Santanu
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Dr. Santanu Kumar Bhowmik
Professor
Department of Geology & Geophysics
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur-721 302
India
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