Zircon and titanite recording 1.5 million years of magma accretion, crystallization and initial cooling in a composite pluton (southern Adamello batholith, northern Italy)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 286, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 208-218

  Schaltegger, Urs ^a   Brack, Peter ^b   Ovtcharova, Maria ^a   Peytcheva, Irena ^a,b,c   Schoene, Blair ^a   Stracke, Andreas ^b   Marocchi, Marta ^d   Bargossi, Giuseppe M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adamello batholith; hafnium isotopes; titanite; U Pb dating; zircon; zircon residence time

Indexed keywords

ADAMELLO BATHOLITH; ANALYTICAL UNCERTAINTY; GRANODIORITE; HAFNIUM ISOTOPES; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MAGMATIC SYSTEMS; NORTHERN ITALY; SILICIC ROCKS; TITANITE; U-PB DATING; ZIRCON CRYSTALS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; SILICATE MINERALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

ZIRCON;

ACCRETION; AGE DETERMINATION; BATHOLITH; COOLING; CRYSTALLIZATION; EMPLACEMENT; GABBRO; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; PLUTON; RESIDENCE TIME; TITANITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 69549133504     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.06.028     Document Type: Article

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