Plate tectonic forcing leads to changes in the physical conditions that affect the lithosphere.
In response to such changes, notably the local temperature (T) and pressure (P), rocks …

Partial melting is the fundamental process by which juvenile crust was produced from the
mantle and subsequently reworked to become the stable, compositionally-differentiated …

XMapTools is a MATLAB©-based graphical user interface program for electron microprobe
X-ray image processing, which can be used to estimate the pressure–temperature …

Compositional mapping has greatly impacted mineralogical and petrological studies over
the past half-century with increasing use of the electron probe micro-analyser. Many …

We present electron microprobe-based in situ (Th+ U)–Pb monazite chemical age data from
granulite-facies metapelites in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica. The monazite age data define two …

While much progress has been made in electron-probe microanalysis (EPMA) to improve
the accuracy of point analysis, the same level of attention has not always been applied to the …

Some mafic granulites in the Sanggan area of the northern Trans‐North China Orogen
(TNCO) have a relatively simple mineralogy with low energy grain shapes that are …

The composition of a porphyroblast such as garnet is not governed by equilibrium relations
when it nucleates and grows after considerable overstepping. The approach followed here …

Ilmenite occurs as a common accessory mineral in igneous and metamorphic rocks and is a
major constituent in lunar basaltic rocks. The distributions and concentrations of major and …

Most natural rocks or engineered materials display a multi-scale heterogeneity ranging from
the nanometer to the centimeter. Their spatial textural heterogeneity can be approached …