Zirconium in rutile speedometry: New constraints on lower crustal cooling rates and residence temperatures

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 317-318, Issue , 2012, Pages 231-240

  Blackburn, Terrence ^a   Shimizu, Nobumichi ^b   Bowring, Samuel A ^a   Schoene, Blair ^c   Mahan, Kevin H ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; High temperature thermochronology; Rutile; Xenoliths; Zirconium; Zr

Indexed keywords

COOLING RATES; CRUSTAL XENOLITHS; CRYSTALLIZATION TEMPERATURE; DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION KINETICS; FORWARD MODELS; GEOLOGIC SETTINGS; GEOTHERMOMETERS; HEAT TRANSFER RATE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; RAPID COOLING; ROCK TYPES; RUTILE; RUTILE CRYSTAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCIES; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT DIFFUSION; TIO; XENOLITHS;

ACCELEROMETERS; COOLING; DIFFUSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; KINETICS; LEAD; OXIDE MINERALS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TITANIUM DIOXIDE;

ZIRCONIUM;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COOLING; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFUSION; FORWARD MODELING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOTHERMOMETRY; HEAT TRANSFER; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOWER CRUST; RUTILE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; XENOLITH; ZIRCONIUM;

EID: 84455178798     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.11.012     Document Type: Article

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