Pb, U and Th diffusion in natural zircon

Nature

Volumn 390, Issue 6656, 1997, Pages 159-162

  Lee, James K W ^a,b   Williams, Ian S ^a   Ellis, David J ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAD; MINERAL; THORIUM; URANIUM; URANIUM 238; ZIRCONIUM;

DIFFUSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD; THORIUM; URANIUM; ZIRCON;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0030697426     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/36554     Document Type: Article

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