Zircon

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.

Author: John M. Hanchar
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: 04/09/2018
Pages: 518
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.74lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.16d
ISBN: 9780939950652

About the Author

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