Paramagnetic hole centres in natural zircon and zircon colouration

European Journal of Mineralogy

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1005-1016

  Klinger, Mathias ^a   Kempe, Ulf ^a   Pöppl, Andreas ^b   Böttcher, Rolf ^b   Trinkler, Michael ^c  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c Alpha Geoservice GbR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colour; EPR; Optical absorption; Zircon

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION SPECTRA; ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CHARGE TRANSFER; COLOR; COLOR CENTERS; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; CRYSTALS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OXYGEN; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; PARAMAGNETISM; RARE EARTHS; SILICATE MINERALS; ZIRCON;

ANGULAR DEPENDENCIES; CHARGE TRANSFER BANDS; ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCES (EPR); EXTERNAL MAGNETIC FIELD; IRRADIATION EXPERIMENTS; MAGNETIC FIELD ORIENTATIONS; PARAMAGNETIC DEFECTS; TETRAGONAL CRYSTAL AXIS;

ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; CORRELATION; CRYSTAL; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; MAGNETIC FIELD; NIOBIUM; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; ZIRCON;

FRANCE; MASSIF CENTRAL; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874540182     PISSN: 09351221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0935-1221/2012/0024-2236     Document Type: Article

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