Timescales of crustal melting in the Higher Himalayan Crystallines (Sikkim, Eastern Himalaya) inferred from trace element-constrained monazite and zircon chronology

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 349-372

  Rubatto, Daniela ^a   Chakraborty, Sumit ^b   Dasgupta, Somnath ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

Author keywords

Himalaya; Melting reactions; Migmatites; Trace elements; U Pb geochronology

Indexed keywords

BIOTITE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; FELDSPAR; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAPELITE; MIGMATITE; MONAZITE; MUSCOVITE; P-T CONDITIONS; PARTIAL MELTING; PETROLOGY; QUARTZ; RETROGRADE METAMORPHISM; TRACE ELEMENT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON; ZONING;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA; SIKKIM;

EID: 84872771075     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-012-0812-y     Document Type: Article

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