Chemical composition of radioactive accessory minerals: Implications for the evolution, alteration, age, and uranium fertility of the Fichtelgebirge granites (NE Bavaria, Germany)

Neues Jahrbuch fur Mineralogie, Abhandlungen

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 161-182

  Forster H J ^a   Rhede, D ^b   Hecht, L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dissolution reprecipitation; Huttonite; Lanthanide tetrad effect; Monazite; Th U Pb age; Uraninite; Uranium mineralization; Xenotine

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; GRANITE; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; MINERAL ALTERATION; MINERALIZATION; MONAZITE; NAMURIAN; URANINITE; URANIUM; XENOTIME;

BAVARIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 57649138577     PISSN: 00777757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0077-7757/2008/0117     Document Type: Article

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