U-Pb ages and trace elements in metamorphic zircon and titanite from UHP eclogite in the Dabie orogen: Constraints on P-T-t path

Journal of Metamorphic Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 721-740

  Gao, X Y ^a   Zheng, Y F ^a   Chen, Y X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Chronometer; Eclogite; Thermometer; Titanite; Zircon

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; DIRECT LINKS; ECLOGITES; EPOXY MOUNTS; HEAVY RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; LASER-ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LIGHT RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; LOWER PRESSURES; METAMORPHIC AGE; METAMORPHIC GROWTH; P-T PATH; P-T-T PATH; PROTOLITHS; THERMOBAROMETRY; THIN SECTION; TITANITE; TRIASSIC; U-PB AGES; U-PB DATING; UHP METAMORPHISM; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE; ZIRCON U-PB AGE; ZIRCON U-PB DATING;

ABLATION; EUROPIUM; GARNETS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPES; LEAD; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; RARE EARTHS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THERMOMETERS; TRACE ELEMENTS; ZIRCONIUM;

ZIRCON;

CONTINENTAL COLLISION; ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; GARNET; METAMORPHISM; OROGENY; P-T-T PATH; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TITANITE; TRACE ELEMENT; TRIASSIC; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

EID: 79960383425     PISSN: 02634929     EISSN: 15251314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1314.2011.00938.x     Document Type: Article

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