Metamictisation of natural zircon: Accumulaton versus thermal annealing of radioactivity-induced damage

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 125-144

  Nasdala, Lutz ^a   Wenzel, Marita ^b,f   Vavra, Gerhard ^c   Irmer, Gert ^d   Wenzel, Thomas ^a   Kober, Bernd ^e  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^f SCHOTT AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; ANNEALING; MICROSTRUCTURE; RADIATION DAMAGE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL EVOLUTION; ZIRCON;

EID: 0034976083     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100000235     Document Type: Article

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