Campaign-style titanite U-Pb dating by laser-ablation ICP: Implications for crustal flow, phase transformations and titanite closure

Chemical Geology

Volumn 341, Issue , 2013, Pages 84-101

  Spencer, K J ^a   Hacker, B R ^a   Kylander Clark, A R C ^a   Andersen, T B ^b   Cottle, J M ^a   Stearns, M A ^a   Poletti, J E ^a   Seward, G G E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Norway; Titanite; U Pb; Ultrahigh pressure

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL FLOW; CRUSTAL ROCKS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE AND PRESSURE; LEUCOSOMES; NORWAY; REGIONAL METAMORPHISMS; TITANITE; U-PB; U-PB DATING; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE; WESTERN GNEISS REGION;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; GNEISS; HIGH PRESSURE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; LASER METHOD; LEUCOSOME; QUARTZ; SUBDUCTION; TITANITE; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

NORWAY; WESTERN GNEISS REGION;

EID: 84874344658     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.11.012     Document Type: Article

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