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An isograd is a concept used in the study of . The metamorphic grade of such a rock is a rough measure of the degree of it has undergone, as characterised by the presence of certain . An isograd is a theoretical surface comprising points all at the same metamorphic grade, and thus separates whose rocks contain different index minerals.Best (2003), p 435 Philpotts (1990), p 317Marchak (2009), p183

On focusing on metamorphic terranes (or landscapes underlain by metamorphic rocks), the boundaries between rocks of different metamorphic grade are commonly demarcated by isograd lines. The isograd, for example, would separate regions containing garnet from those without.

The present in a metamorphic rock are important because laboratory experiments at high pressures and temperatures have provided a lot of information on the pressure and temperature conditions under which certain metamorphic minerals form. For example, with increasing temperature and pressure the first minerals to form from a are , particularly and . With increasing temperature and pressure appears, and then (at relatively high pressure) or (at relatively high temperature). The metamorphic zone with chlorite can be referred to as the chlorite zone, the zone with garnet as garnet zone, and so forth. To communicate this easily, the dominant metamorphic minerals in are usually included in the name, as, for example, garnet schist, or garnet-staurolite schist, and so forth.


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  • , 2003, Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Blackwell Publishing (2nd ed.),
  • Marshak, Stephen, 2009, Essentials of Geology, W. W. Norton & Company, 3rd ed.
  • , 1990, Principles of Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, Prentice Hall,

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