Slow cooling of deep crustal granulites and Pb-loss in zircon

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 63, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 2839-2851

  Ashwal, Lewis D ^a   Tucker, Robert D ^b   Zinner, Ernst K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANULITE FACIES; LEAD; METAMORPHISM; PROTEROZOIC; ZIRCON;

MADAGASCAR;

EID: 0033389226     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(99)00166-0     Document Type: Article

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