Quartz shielding of sub-10μm zircons from radiation damage-enhanced Pb loss: An example from a metamorphosed mafic dike, northwestern Wyoming craton

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 339-340, Issue , 2012, Pages 57-66

  Ault, Alexis K ^a   Flowers, Rebecca M ^a   Mahan, Kevin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

In situ SIMS U Pb geochronology; Mafic dike; Pb loss; Radiation damage; Shielding; Zircon

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; GEOLOGIC HISTORY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IN-SITU; MAFIC DIKES; MATRIX GRAINS; MINERAL SEPARATION; MONTANA; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; QUARTZ CRYSTAL; SECONDARY IONS; THERMAL PULSE; THIN SECTION; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY; WYOMING; ZIRCON CRYSTALS;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; LEVEES; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; QUARTZ; SHIELDING; ZIRCON;

RADIATION DAMAGE;

BATHOLITH; DIKE; EMPLACEMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LEAD; MAFIC ROCK; MINERALOGY; PROTEROZOIC; QUARTZ; RADIATION DAMAGE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

MADISON RANGE; MONTANA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WYOMING CRATON;

VALERIANA EDULIS;

EID: 84863092249     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.04.025     Document Type: Article

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