Ti-in-zircon thermometry: Applications and limitations

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 197-215

  Fu, Bin ^a,e   Page, F Zeb ^a,f   Cavosie, Aaron J ^b   Fournelle, John ^a   Kita, Noriko T ^a   Lackey, Jade Star ^c   Wilde, Simon A ^d   Valley, John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anorthosite; Early Archean; Gabbro; Granite; Jack Hills; Thermometry; Titanium; Zircon

Indexed keywords

ANORTHOSITE; ARCHEAN; CRYSTALLIZATION; GABBRO; GRANITE; IGNEOUS ROCK; ION MICROPROBE; PROVENANCE; TITANIUM; ZIRCON;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; JACK HILLS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 45849126482     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-008-0281-5     Document Type: Article

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