Constraining a SHRIMP U-Pb age: Micro-scale characterization of zircons from Saxonian Rotliegend rhyolites

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 300-306

  Nasdala, Lutz ^a,c   Götze, Jens ^b   Pidgeon, Robert T ^a   Kempe, Ulf ^b   Seifert, Thomas ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 0001638970     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050423     Document Type: Article

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