Coupled elemental and isotopic analyses of polygenetic zircons from granitic rocks by ion microprobe, with implications for melt evolution and the sources of granitic magmas

Chemical Geology

Volumn 277, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 149-159

  Barth, Andrew P ^a   Wooden, Joseph L ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geochronology; Granite; Magma; Zircon

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITIONAL DIFFERENCE; COMPOSITIONAL VARIATION; COMPOSITIONAL ZONATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; COUPLED ANALYSIS; CRUSTAL SOURCES; EVOLUTIONARY STAGE; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION; GRANITIC MAGMAS; GRANITIC ROCKS; ION MICROPROBE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MAGMA; MAGMATIC ARCS; MESOPROTEROZOIC AGE; MULTIPLE SAMPLES; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PALEOZOIC; ROCK TYPES; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TRACE ELEMENT ANALYSIS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; LANDFORMS; LEAD; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZIRCON;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

AGE DETERMINATION; COOLING; COUPLING; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRANITE; ION MICROPROBE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MAGMATISM; MANTLE SOURCE; PARTIAL MELTING; ZIRCON;

CALIFORNIA; COAST RANGES; GRANITE MOUNTAINS; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 77956651293     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.07.017     Document Type: Article

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