Reverse age zonation of zircon formed by metamictisation and hydrothermal fluid leaching

Lithos

Volumn 150, Issue , 2012, Pages 256-267

  Xu, Xi Sheng ^a   Zhang, Ming ^b   Zhu, Kong Yang ^a   Chen, Xiao Ming ^a   He, Zhen Yu ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hydrothermal fluid leaching; Metamict structure; Reverse age zonation; Sodalite syenite; Southeast China

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SHRIMP DATING; SODALITE; SYENITE; URANIUM; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA;

EID: 84865745206     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2011.12.014     Document Type: Article

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