Qinghu zircon: A working reference for microbeam analysis of U-Pb age and Hf and O isotopes

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 58, Issue 36, 2013, Pages 4647-4654

  Li, XianHua ^a   Tang, GuoQiang ^a   Gong, Bing ^b   Yang, YueHeng ^a   Hou, KeJun ^c   Hu, ZhaoChu ^d   Li, QiuLi ^a   Liu, Yu ^a   Li, WuXian ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^e GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

Author keywords

LA MC ICPMS; O and Hf isotopes; Qinghu; SIMS; standard; U Pb age; zircon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888257298     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-013-5932-x     Document Type: Article

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