Hadean diamonds in zircon from Jack Hills, Western Australia

Nature

Volumn 448, Issue 7156, 2007, Pages 917-920

  Menneken, Martina ^a   Nemchin, Alexander A ^b   Geisler, Thorsten ^a   Pidgeon, Robert T ^b   Wilde, Simon A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND; GRAPHITE; ZIRCONIUM;

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIAMOND; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; ZIRCON;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; AUSTRALIA; EVOLUTION; HADEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; JACK HILLS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 34548176648     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06083     Document Type: Article

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