Experimental hydrothermal alteration of partially metamict zircon

American Mineralogist

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1496-1513

  Geisler, Thorsten ^a,b   Pidgeon, Robert T ^b   Kurtz, Reinhardt ^a   van Bronswijk, Wilhelm ^b   Schleicher, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM CHLORIDE; AMORPHOUS MATERIALS; CLAY ALTERATION; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON EMISSION; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; ION EXCHANGE; KINETICS; NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; POSITIVE IONS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); TRACE ELEMENTS; ZIRCON;

BACKSCATTERED ELECTRONS; CATHODOLUMINESCENCE INTENSITY; DEGREE OF STRUCTURAL ORDER; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATIONS; HYDROTHERMAL EXPERIMENTS; RECRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; SENSITIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE; SOLID STATE RECRYSTALLIZATION;

SILICATE MINERALS;

CATHODOLUMINESCENCE; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; ZIRCON;

EID: 0042175796     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am-2003-1013     Document Type: Article

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