Chemical dating of monazite-Testing of an analytical protocol against independently dated standards

Indian Minerals

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 311-318

  Pant, N C ^a   Kundu, Amitava ^b   Joshi, Sonalika ^b   Dey, Aloka ^a   Bhandari, Anubha ^a   Joshi, Anil ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Chemical dating; Electron microprobe; Monazite

Indexed keywords

AGE DATA; ANALYTICAL PROTOCOLS; ELECTRON MICROPROBE; ELECTRON MICROPROBES;

ELECTRONS; MONAZITE; PHOSPHATE MINERALS;

STANDARDS;

DATING METHOD; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; INSTALLATION; MONAZITE; STANDARD (REFERENCE);

INDIA;

EID: 77953352459     PISSN: 00195936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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