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Cambridge Topics in Petrology is a series of covers advanced texts on important areas of current research within the field of petrology. The series will cover a range of topics that reflects the increasingly complex body of research that falls under the umbrella of igneous and metamorphic petrology. This series is a resource that assimilates, synthesizes and analyzes the wealth of widely disseminated information on the subject, and makes it available to a wider readership in a form accessible to the advanced student and researcher.

  • General Editors: Paul C. Hess, Brown University, Alan B. Thompson, ETH, Zurich

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Ultrahigh Pressure Metamorphism
  • Edited by Robert G. Coleman, Xiaomin Wang
  • Published online:
    24 October 2009
    Print publication:
    26 May 1995
  • Recent discoveries of diamond and coesite in the upper crustal rocks of the Earth have drastically changed scientists' ideas concerning the limits of crustal metamorphism. This book provides detailed accounts of the discoveries of diamond and coesite in crustal rocks and provides insights regarding their formation at very high pressures. The formation of these minerals is related to subduction and continental collision and the tectonics, petrological and mineralogical conditions of diamond and coesite formation are each discussed. Written by the leading workers in this exciting field, this book attempts to define an entirely new field of metamorphism - ultrahigh pressure metamorphism (UHPM). In doing so, it explains the formation of ultrahigh pressure minerals and explores new ideas regarding the tectonic setting of this style of metamorphism. This book will be of particular interest to researchers and graduate students of metamorphic petrology and global tectonics.