Textural development of monazite during high-grade metamorphism: Hydrothermal growth kinetics, with implications for U,Th-Pb geochronology

American Mineralogist

Volumn 84, Issue 11-12, 1999, Pages 1766-1780

  Ayers, John C ^a   Miller, Calvin ^a   Gorisch, Betsy ^a   Milleman, John ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; COARSENING; CRYSTALS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GROWTH KINETICS; ISOTOPES; MONAZITE; OSTWALD RIPENING; QUARTZ; RATE CONSTANTS; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); TEXTURES;

CONTINUOUS RECRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTAL SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; GRAIN-BOUNDARY DIFFUSION; GROWTH MECHANISMS; HIGH GRADE METAMORPHISM; HYDROTHERMAL GROWTH; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; UNIFORM DIAMETER;

PHOSPHATE MINERALS;

METAMORPHISM; MONAZITE; TEXTURE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

EID: 0033367508     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-1999-11-1206     Document Type: Article

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