Accurate U-Pb age and trace element determinations of zircon by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry

Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 353-370

  Yuan, Honglin ^a,b   Gao, Shan ^a,c   Liu, Xiaoming ^a   Li, Huiming ^d   Günther, Detlef ^b   Wu, Fuyuan ^d  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LABORATORY OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Switzerland)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Excimer laser; Geochronology; LA ICP MS; Trace elements; Zircon

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744540298     PISSN: 01505505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-908X.2004.tb00755.x     Document Type: Article

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