Correlating planar microstructures in shocked zircon from the Vredefort Dome at multiple scales: Crystallographic modeling, external and internal imaging, and EBSD structural analysis

American Mineralogist

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 53-65

  Erickson, Timmons M ^a   Cavosie, Aaron J ^a   Moser, Desmond E ^b   Barker, Ivan R ^b   Radovan, Henri A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Planar fractures; Shock metamorphism; Vredefort Dome; Zircon

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DOMES; ELECTRONS; FRACTURE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROMETERS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SILICATE MINERALS; TWINNING; ZIRCON;

BACKSCATTERED ELECTRON IMAGING; COMPRESSIONAL DEFORMATION; CRYSTAL PLASTIC DEFORMATIONS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC MODELS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATIONS; ELECTRON BACK SCATTER DIFFRACTION; FORMATION AND EVOLUTIONS; SHOCK METAMORPHISM;

MICROSTRUCTURE;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MELT; ORIENTATION; ROCK MICROSTRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ZIRCON;

FREE STATE; SOUTH AFRICA; VREDEFORT DOME;

EID: 84872009190     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: 19453027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2013.4165     Document Type: Article

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