Zircon growth in (U)HP quartzo-feldspathic host gneisses exhumed in the Woodlark Rift of Papua New Guinea

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1258-1282

  Zirakparvar, N A ^a,b   Baldwin, S L ^a   Schmitt, A K ^c  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

(U)HP host gneiss; SIMS; zircon geochronology

Indexed keywords

DEPTH PROFILING; ELECTRONIC GUIDANCE SYSTEMS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEAD; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; TITANIUM;

BULK COMPOSITIONS; COESITE-ECLOGITE; DEPTH-PROFILING ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMICAL HETEROGENEITY; HOST GNEISS; IN-DEPTH PROFILE; METAMORPHIC GRADE; PAPUA NEW GUINEA;

ZIRCON;

CRETACEOUS; ECLOGITE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GNEISS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; METAMORPHISM; QUARTZ; RECRYSTALLIZATION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

NEW GUINEA;

EID: 84901379003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GC004964     Document Type: Article

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