Minerals related to metamorphism

 

Coes invented in 1953 a special high pressure device insuring a solid-medium confinement of mineral to study their behaviour under conditions of high pressure and high temperature.

 

Jamieson carried out in 1953 the first determination of the pressure-temperature curve for the calcite - aragonite transition.

 

Thompson proposed in 1955 a thermodynamical explanation to the concept of mineralogical facies used to classify metamorphic rocks.

 

Coleman and Lee discovered in 1962 the use of aragonite as an indicator of a fast crust uplift.

 

Bell then Khitarov and al. who were working independently carried out in 1963 an experimental determination of the triple point of the aluminium silicates Al2SiO5.

 

Boyd gave in 1973 an estimation of the geothermal gradient from the chemical composition of coexisting pyroxenes in a rock.

 

Chopin published in 1984 the first discover of the very high pressure silica polymorph called coesite inside a metamorphic rock.

 

Sobolev and Shatsky published in 1987 their identification of the in-situ presence of diamond inside a metamorphic rock.