Dating high-grade metamorphism - Constraints from rare-earth elements in zircon and garnet

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-74

  Whitehouse, Martin J ^a   Platt, John P ^b  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GARNET; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANULITE; METAMORPHISM; P-T CONDITIONS; PETROGRAPHY; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; ZIRCON;

BETIC CORDILLERA; SPAIN;

EID: 0037741869     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-002-0432-z     Document Type: Article

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