REE zoning in allanite related to changing partition coefficients during crystallization: Implications for REE behaviour in an epidote-bearing tonalite

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 419-435

  Beard, J S ^a   Sorensen, S S ^b   Giere R ^c  

^a VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Allanite; Partitioning; REE; Tonalite; Zoning

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; MINERALS; PROBES; SINGLE CRYSTALS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ALLANITE; ELECTRON MICROPROBE; STATISTICAL SAMPLING ERROR; TONALITE; ZONED CRYSTALS;

MINERALOGY;

ALLANITE; COLOR; CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; PARTITIONING; PLEOCHROISM; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TONALITE; ZONING;

BELL ISLAND; CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33751243627     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/0026461067040337     Document Type: Article

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