Mobilization of radiogenic Pb in zircon revealed by ion imaging: Implications for early Earth geochronology

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 291-294

  Kusiak, Monika A ^a,b,c   Whitehouse, Martin J ^a   Wilde, Simon A ^b   Nemchin, Alexander A ^b   Clark, Chris ^b  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL MORPHOLOGIES; EARLY EARTH; EAST ANTARCTICA; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ION IMAGES; ION IMAGING; ION MICROPROBE; MICROMETER-SCALE; OLD AGE; PB ISOTOPES; SUB-DOMAINS; ZIRCON AGE;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; IONS; ISOTOPES; ZIRCON;

LEAD;

ARTIFACT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; IMAGING METHOD; ION MICROPROBE; LEAD; LEAD-LEAD DATING; METAMORPHISM; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84874708950     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33920.1     Document Type: Article

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