New zircon shock phenomena and their use for dating and reconstruction of large impact structures revealed by electron nanobeam (EBSD, CL, EDS) and isotopic U-Pb and (U-Th)/he analysis of the vredefort dome

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 117-139

  Moser, D E ^a   Cupelli, C L ^a   Barker, I R ^a   Flowers, R M ^b   Bowman, J R ^c   Wooden, J ^d   Hart, J R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e iThemba Lab   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLD SHOCK; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; HOST ROCKS; IGNEOUS ACTIVITY; IMPACT BASINS; IMPACT EVENTS; IMPACT MELT; IMPACT STRUCTURES; ISOTOPIC MEASUREMENT; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MICROTWINNING; MICROTWINS; PARTIAL MELT; PRE-IMPACT; RADIAL DISTANCE; RECRYSTALLIZATIONS; SHOCK FEATURES; SHOCK HEATING; SHOCK WAVE COMPRESSION; ZIRCON AGE;

FRACTURE; GALLIUM; ISOTOPES; LEAD; NANOWIRES; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SHOCK WAVES; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

CRYSTAL ORIENTATION;

COMPRESSION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DIFFUSION; ELECTRON; GRANITOID; IGNEOUS ROCK; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MELT; MICROSTRUCTURE; RECONSTRUCTION; SHOCK WAVE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; UPLIFT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

FREE STATE; SOUTH AFRICA; VREDEFORT DOME;

EID: 79952258408     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: 14803313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E11-011     Document Type: Article

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