Rates of magma differentiation and emplacement in a ballooning pluton recorded by U-Pb TIMS-TEA, Adamello batholith, Italy

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 355-356, Issue , 2012, Pages 162-173

  Schoene, Blair ^a,b   Schaltegger, Urs ^b   Brack, Peter ^c   Latkoczy, Christopher ^d,e   Stracke, Andreas ^c,f   Günther, Detlef ^d  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d LABORATORY OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Switzerland)

^e Nanotion AG   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

ID TIMS; Magmatic processes; Plutonic systems; Titanite; U Pb geochronology; Zircon

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION TIME; CORE SOLIDIFICATION; FRACTIONAL CRYSTALLIZATION; HAFNIUM ISOTOPES; HF ISOTOPE; HIGH-PRECISION; ID-TIMS; MAGMA BATCHES; MAGMA BODIES; MAGMA CHAMBER; MAGMA DIFFERENTIATION; MAGMA EMPLACEMENT AGES; MAGMA INJECTION; MAGMATIC PROCESS; SAMPLING STRATEGIES; STRAIN ANALYSIS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TIME CONSTRAINTS; TIME-SCALES; TITANITE; TRACE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY;

EUROPIUM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HAFNIUM; ISOTOPES; POPULATION STATISTICS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS; ZIRCON;

LEAD;

BATHOLITH; EMPLACEMENT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGMATIC DIFFERENTIATION; MAGMATISM; PLUTON; TITANITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ITALY;

DELLA;

EID: 84867350780     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.08.019     Document Type: Article

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