>Hi Bernardo, 1/28/04 > >Quite likely, almost all of the metapelite migmatite papers published >on New England localities involve rocks containing graphite that was >derived from organic material in the original sedimentary shales. >Almost certainly that's true in Maine. > >The few possible exceptions about which I am aware might be like >those described in an old NEIGC guidebook paper by Rumble and >Chamberlain -- and these are rather small localized occurrences of >graphite that was probably re-precipitated after dissolution of >originally organic carbon. > >So, in my opinion, merely add to your list of references all of the New >England migmatite papers. Hi Charlie, could you please give me just one "representative" reference?, I've gathered many examples of graphitic granulites and migmatites, and I need to shrink the number of refs. I hope you're well! Well we see in Florence? Cheers, Bernardo -- ******************************************************************************* Bernardo Cesare Dipartimento di Mineralogia e Petrologia, Universita' di Padova Corso Garibaldi, 37, I-35137 PADOVA ITALY Tel: ++39-049-8272019 Fax: ++39-049-8272010 email: [log in to unmask] web site: http://dmp.unipd.it/bernardo/bernardo.html *******************************************************************************