Significance of radiation damage on the integral SEM cathodoluminescence intensity of zircon: An experimental annealing study

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Monatshefte

Volumn 10, Issue , 2001, Pages 433-445

  Geisler, Thorsten ^a   Pidgeon, Robert T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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