Radiation damage in zircon

American Mineralogist

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 770-781

  Palenik, Christopher S ^a   Nasdala, Lutz ^b   Ewing, Rodney C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NANOPARTICLES; RADIATION DAMAGE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; THORIUM; TRANSMISSIONS; ZIRCON; ZIRCONIA;

ALPHA-DECAY EVENTS; DAMAGE ACCUMULATION; EQUIVALENT DAMAGE; MEASUREMENTS OF; MICRO RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; THERMAL HISTORY; ZIRCON CRYSTALS; ZONE BOUNDARIES;

SILICATE MINERALS;

CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; RADIATION DAMAGE; THORIUM; URANIUM; ZIRCON;

EID: 0038608202     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-2003-5-606     Document Type: Article

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