Publisher's Synopsis
Devoted entirely to eclogites and eclogite-facies rocks, this book is composed of a series of reviews, including one on the Norwegian coesite-eclogite province where a great number of peculiar mineral compositions or associations occur. The book incorporates large quantities of petrographic detail, and much previously unpublished data. Selected parts of the book deal exhaustively with specific topics, for example: - an extensive review and bibliography of eclogites in the Western Gneiss Region of Norway (a classic area whose diversity and complexity encompasses much of what occurs in eclogites throughout the globe) - microtextural descriptions of eclogites from Vendee, France (providing a wealth of data on the Hercynian Orogen) - rare earth element and other trace element bulk-rock chemical data from Australian and Colorado Plateau xenoliths - petrological and mineral chemical data from various Colorado Plateau xenoliths and acid eclogites in Greece and New Caledonia.
