Heterogeneous metamictization of zircon on a microscale

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1091-1097

  Nasdala, Lutz ^a,c   Pidgeon, Robert T ^b   Wolf, Dieter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINITY; METAMICTIZATION; MICROSCALE; RAMAN MICROPROBE; ZIRCON;

EID: 0029773275     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-7037(95)00454-8     Document Type: Note

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