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Absher and McSween H.Y Jr, 1986, Winding Stair Gap granulite

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Winding Stair Gap Roadcut, Franklin, Ellijay Mining District, Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina, USAβ“˜ Albite, β“˜ Andesine, β“˜ Anorthite, β“˜ Apatite, β“˜ Biotite, β“˜ Bytownite, β“˜ Calcite, β“˜ Clinozoisite, β“˜ Cummingtonite, β“˜ Diopside, β“˜ Garnet Group, β“˜ Grossular, Hornblende, β“˜ Ilmenite, β“˜ K Feldspar, β“˜ Kyanite, β“˜ Magnetite, β“˜ Plagioclase, β“˜ Quartz, β“˜ Scapolite, β“˜ Sillimanite, β“˜ Titanite

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Absher, S.B., & McSween, H.Y., Jr., 1986. Winding Stair Gap granulites: The thermal peak of Paleozoic metamorphism: in Geological Society of America Centennial Field Guide: Southeastern Section, p. 257-260
ABSHER, B. STEVEN, McSWEEN, HARRY Y. (1985) Granulites at Winding Stair Gap, North Carolina: The thermal axis of Paleozoic metamorphism in the southern Appalachians. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 96 (5) 588 doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1985)96<588:gawsgn>2.0.co;2
McSween, H.Y., Jr.: Econ. Geology:71:814-817 (1976)
EL-Shazley,A.K.,Loehn C.,and Tracy R.J.,(2011) P-T-t evolution of granulite facies metamorphism and partial melting in the Winding Stair Gap,Central Blue Ridge,North Carolina,USA: Journal of Metamorphic Geology
McSween, H.Y., Jr. (1987) Meteorites and their Parent Planets. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, 237 pages.
McSween, H.Y., Jr. (2002) The rocks of Mars, from far and near. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 37(1), 7–25 (Jan 2002).
EL-SHAZLY, A. K., LOEHN, C., TRACY, R. J. (2011) P-T-t evolution of granulite facies metamorphism and partial melting in the Winding Stair Gap, Central Blue Ridge, North Carolina, USA. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 29 (7) 753-780 doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2011.00940.x
Lauretta, D. S. & McSween Jr., H.Y., Editors (2006). Meteorites and the Early Solar System II. University of Arizona Press: Tucson, Arizona. 943 pages.
McSween, H.Y.,Jr (1994). What we have learned about Mars from the SNC Meteorites: Meteoritics 29(6): 757-779. (Nov 1994)
McSween Jr., H.Y. & Bennett III, M.E. (1991) The mineralogy of ordinary chondrites and implications for asteroid spectrophotometry: Icarus 90(1): 107-116. (March 1991).
McSween Jr., H.Y. & Patchen, A.D. (1989) Pyroxene thermobarometry in LL-group chondrites and implications for parent body metamorphism: Meteoritics 24 (4): 219-226. (Dec. 1989).
 
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