Metamorphic replacement of mineral inclusions in detrital zircon from Jack Hills, Australia: Implications for the Hadean Earth

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1143-1146

  Rasmussen, Birger ^a   Fletcher, Ian R ^a   Muhling, Janet R ^b   Gregory, Courtney J ^a   Wilde, Simon A ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; DETRITAL ZIRCON; FORMATION TEMPERATURE; GRANITIC ROCKS; HADEAN ZIRCONS; HOST ROCKS; IN-SITU; INTER-GROWTHS; MATRIX; METAMORPHIC GRADE; MINERAL INCLUSIONS; PRIMARY INCLUSIONS; ROCK MATRIX; TITANIUM CONTENT; U-PB DATING; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY; ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS; XENOTIME;

APATITE; GALLIUM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LEAD; MICA; MINERALS; MONAZITE; PETROGRAPHY; QUARTZ; ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TITANIUM; WEATHERING; ZIRCON;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DIAGENESIS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HADEAN; METAMORPHISM; MINERALIZATION; MONAZITE; P-T CONDITIONS; PETROGRAPHY; SECONDARY MINERAL; SEDIMENTATION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; WEATHERING RATE; XENOTIME; ZIRCON;

AUSTRALIA; JACK HILLS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 80955123669     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32554.1     Document Type: Article

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