Lead in zircon at the atomic scale

American Mineralogist

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1094-1102

  Kogawa, Masashi ^a   Watson, E Bruce ^b   Ewing, Rodney C ^c   Utsunomiya, Satoshi ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Lead; Nanoscale; TEM; Zircon

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CHEMICAL DETECTION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X RAY ANALYSIS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LEAD; LEAD OXIDE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICATE MINERALS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSIONS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS; ZIRCON; ZIRCONIUM METALLOGRAPHY;

COUPLED SUBSTITUTION; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY ANALYSIS (EDX); HIGH-ANGLE ANNULAR DARK FIELDS; HOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; MICROSCOPY TECHNIQUE; NANO SCALE; SUBSTITUTION MECHANISMS;

LEAD METALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GRAIN BOUNDARY; LEAD; SUBSTITUTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZIRCON;

EID: 84864839749     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: 19453027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2012.3993     Document Type: Article

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