METAMORPHIC STUDIES GROUP
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Liverpool University
10 th March 1999.
PROGRAMME AND ABSTRACTS
10.00 MORNING COFFEE
10.30 Guest, R. E., McCaig, A. M. & Graham, C. M. Mechanisms of
retrogressive dolomitisation of marble, SW Highlands, Scotland.
10.50 McCaig, A. M. Rutter, E. H. & Lloyd, G. E. Grain boundary
diffusion and migration in calcite: experimental studies with Mn as a
tracer.
11.10 Balashov, Y. & Yardley, B. W. D. Modelling the initiation of
calc-silicate reactions: the significance of the first 10 seconds.
11.30 Hudson, N. F. C. & Kearns, S. L. Calc-silicate assemblages and
isograds in the Buchan Dalradian at Banff, NE Scotland, and their
bearing on the stability relations of cummingtonite.
11.50 Moazzen, M. & Droop, G. T. R. Variation of H20 activity in pelites
of the Etive aureole, Scotland: evidence from H20 content of
cordierite.
12.10 Lovegrove, D. & Waters, D. A study of the metapelites of the
Bushveld Aureole as a means of quantifying metamorphic reaction
kinetics.
12.30 LUNCH
2.00 MSG AGM
2.20 Keynote address: Engi, M. Snapshots of metamorphic evolution:
should a petrologist bother with thermal modelling”
3.00 Roberts, H., Kelley, S. & Dahl., P. Obtaining geologically
meaningful 40Ar/39Ar ages from altered biotite.
3.20 Watkins, J. M. Lewisian granulite facies metamorphism: regional
event or local contact effect?
3.40 Johnson, T. E, Hudson, N. F. C. & Droop, G. T. R. Partial melting
in Dalradian pelitic migmatites from Fraserburgh - Inzie Head area of
Buchan, northeast Scotland.
4.00 AFTERNOON TEA
4.30 Cuthbert, S. J., Carswell, D. A., & Krogh-Ravna, E. J. “Eclogites
and eclogites” - high pressure and ultra-high pressure metamorphism in
the Norwegian Caledonides.
4.50 O’Brien, P. J. From what depth were the Himalayan eclogites
exhumed?
5.10 Storey, C. D. Brewer, T. S., Parrish, R. R., Temperley, S. &
Windley, B. F. Petrology and preliminary P-T-t data from Glenelg Inier,
NW Scotland
5.30 Prize presentation
POSTERS
1. Hudson, N. F. C. & Kearns, S. L. On the origins of layered
calc-silicate rocks from the Buchan Dalradian and their bearing on the
diagenetic history of the Southern Highland Group.
2. van Roemund, H. L. M., Drury, M. R., Barnhoorn, & de Ronde, A.
A.Ultra- high pressure (P>6GPa) garnet peridotites in Western Norway:
Implications for the exhumation processes of mantle rocks.
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