Fluid-mediated partial alteration in monazite: The role of coupled dissolution-reprecipitation in element redistribution and mass transfer

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 329-348

  Harlov, Daniel E ^a   Wirth, Richard ^a   Hetherington, Callum J ^b  

^a GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkali bearing fluids; Britholite; Cheralite; Dissolution reprecipitation; Experimental petrology; Huttonite; Metasomatism; Monazite; Thorite

Indexed keywords

BRITHOLITE; DISSOLUTION; HEAVY MINERAL; IGNEOUS ROCK; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METAMORPHIC ROCK; METASOMATISM; MONAZITE; PETROLOGY; ZONING;

EID: 79953284338     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-010-0599-7     Document Type: Article

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