Behaviour of radiogenic Pb in zircon during ultrahigh-temperature metamorphism: An ion imaging and ion tomography case study from the Kerala Khondalite Belt, southern India

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 168, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1-18

  Whitehouse, Martin J ^a   Ravindra Kumar, G R ^b   Rimša, Andrius ^a,c  

^a SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^b CENTRE FOR EARTH SCIENCE STUDIES   (India)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ion imaging; Ion tomography; Kerala Khondalite Belt; Secondary ion mass spectrometry; Ultrahigh temperature metamorphism; Zircon

Indexed keywords

CHARNOCKITE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GRANITE; KHONDALITE; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRAHIGH TEMPERATURE METAMORPHISM; ZIRCON;

INDIA; KERALA KHONDALITE BELT;

EID: 84905290035     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-014-1042-2     Document Type: Article

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