| Zircon Contributor(s): Hanchar, John M. (Editor), Hoskin, Paul W. O. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0939950650 ISBN-13: 9780939950652 Publisher: de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $49.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Earth Sciences - Mineralogy - Science | Earth Sciences - Geology |
| Dewey: 549.62 |
| LCCN: 2004297810 |
| Series: Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry |
| Physical Information: 1.16" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.74 lbs) 518 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hanchar, John M.: - John M. Hanchar, Washington, District of Columbia, USA and Paul W.O. Hoskin, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. |