Microprobe monazite geochronology: Understanding geologic processes by integrating composition and chronology

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue , 2007, Pages 137-175

  Williams, Michael L ^a   Jercinovic, Michael J ^a   Hetherington, Callum J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Analytical methods; Chemical reaction; Crystal chemistry; Deformation; Electron microprobe

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; PETROLOGY;

COMPOSITIONAL DOMAIN; GEOCHRONOMETER; HOST ROCK;

MONAZITE;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL REACTION; CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEFORMATION; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOST ROCK; MONAZITE; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

EID: 34250671464     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.35.031306.140228     Document Type: Article

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