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At 05:11 PM 06/07/2004 -0400, you wrote: >The earliest paper in GeoRef that deals with "resorption" of metamorphic >garnet is by Pierre Bellair in 1959. In reference to porphyroblasts, I >think "resorption" is simply the opposite of "growth". Resorption is a >process by which porphyroblasts get smaller, without any implications as >to how it happens. > >Cheers, Dugald What about the case where crystal size reduction occurs through dynamic recrystallization and formation of porphyroclasts? I guess I wouldn't call this process resorption, but admittedly it may not be clear in all cases why the crystal size reduction is occurring. Doug