Dissolution, growth and survival of zircons during crustal fusion: Kinetic principles, geological models and implications for isotopic inheritance

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 315, Issue , 1996, Pages 43-56

  Watson, E Bruce ^a  

^a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal fusion; Isotopic inheritance; Zircon dissolution; Zircon growth; Zircon survival

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; ISOTOPES; TEMPERATURE; ZIRCON; ZIRCONIUM;

CONSTANT TEMPERATURE; DIFFUSION-CONTROLLED DISSOLUTION; GRANITIC COMPOSITION; INVERSE PROPORTIONS; ISOTOPIC INHERITANCE; KINETIC PRINCIPLES; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; TIME-DEPENDENT TEMPERATURE;

SILICATE MINERALS;

DISSOLUTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; ZIRCON;

EID: 77956413942     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2315-9.43     Document Type: Article

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