Helium irradiation study on zircon

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 161, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 777-789

  Nasdala, Lutz ^a   Grambole, Dieter ^c   Götze, Jens ^d   Kempe, Ulf ^d   Váczi, Tamás ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b BAY ZOLTÁN NONPROFIT LTD FOR APPLIED RESEARCH   (Hungary)

^c INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ion irradiation; Luminescence; Radiation damage; Raman spectroscopy; Zircon

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; HELIUM; IRRADIATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; RADIATION DAMAGE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; ZIRCON;

EID: 79953802636     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-010-0562-7     Document Type: Article

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