Zircon: 53 (Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, 53) - Softcover

Book 72 of 83: Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry
 
9780939950652: Zircon: 53 (Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry, 53)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0939950650 ISBN 13: 9780939950652
Publisher: De Gruyter, 2018

Synopsis

Volume 53 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry covers the most important aspects of zircon-related research over the past twenty-years and highlight possible future research avenues.The chapters review the structure of zircon and other mineral (and synthetic) phases with the zircon structure; the minor and trace element compositions of igneous, metamorphic and hydrothermal zircons; the study of melt inclusions in zircon; experimental and natural studies of zircon saturation and the use of zircon saturation thermometry for natural rocks; cation diffusion and oxygen diffusion in zircon; the historical development of zircon geochronology from the mid-1950s to the present; ID-TIMS, SIMS and ICP-MS; the application of zircon chronology in constraining sediment provenance and the calibration ofthe geologic time-scale; other isotopic systematics; the spectroscopy of zircon, both crystalline and metamict and an atlas of internal textures of zircon.

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About the Author

John M. Hanchar, Washington, District of Columbia, USA and Paul W.O. Hoskin, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0939950650
ISBN 13 
9780939950652
Binding
Perfect Paperback
Number of pages
500
Editor
Hanchar