Multiple zircon growth and recrystallization during polyphase late carboniferous to triassic metamorphism in granulites of the Ivrea Zone (Southern Alps): An ion microprobe (SHRIMP) study

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 337-358

  Vavra, Gerhard ^a   Gebauer, Dieter ^a   Schmid, Rolf ^a   Compston, William ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL GROWTH; GRANULITE; METAMORPHISM; RECRYSTALLIZATION; ZIRCON;

ITALY, ALPS, IVREA ZONE;

EID: 0030302359     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050132     Document Type: Article

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