Zircon textures and composition: Refractory recorders of magmatic volatile evolution?

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 45-71

  Erdmann, S ^a   Wodicka, N ^a   Jackson, S E ^a   Corrigan, D ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alteration; Evolved granite; Fluid; Magma; Zircon

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRYSTALLIZATION; FRACTIONATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GRANITE; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MAGMA; MINERAL ALTERATION; TEXTURE; TRACE ELEMENT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON; ZONING;

CANADA; MELVILLE PENINSULA; NUNAVUT;

EID: 84871936908     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-012-0791-z     Document Type: Article

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