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In this book, you will find a lot of exciting and often astonishing information about these extraordinary and diverse materials. The presentation is essentially chronological and follows the history of the discovery of these materials. Their properties and areas of application a…
Zircon
by Geochemical Society, Mineralogical Society of America
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As the most robust accessory mineral, both physically and chemically, zircon can preserve valuable geochemical information of the melt that it crystallized from, which makes it an extremely powerful tool to investigate the nature of the first 500 Ma of Earth’s history. Zircon is…
The Mesoproterozoic (1.4–0.9 Ga) Grenville Orogeny led to the formation of the supercontinent Rodinia. One unique characteristic of the Grenville Orogeny is that it produced a volumetrically significant amount of zirconium- (Zr) enriched granitoids, evidently more than any perio…
The Great Unconformity beneath Paleozoic strata represents 100-1000 m.y. of missing rock record that formed through extensive weathering and erosion. Despite its global extent, the timing of Precambrian crystalline rock exhumation prior to Phanerozoic sediment deposition remains…
How quickly huge volumes of magma accumulate and evolve beneath caldera volcanoes and whether they are stored for long periods before eruption are fundamental to understanding the potential for destructive volcanic eruptions, how voluminous magmas differentiate, and how vast tra…
Tectonic models of continental orogens seek to reconstruct the deformation processes associated with large-scale continental collision events. Geographically broad field surveys provide two spatial dimensions, and geochronology provides a third temporal dimension. The missing fo…
Zircon data from South Karakoram gneiss dome provide evidence for Proterozoic inherited cores (1.8-1.9 Ga and 2.3-.2.5 Ga) surrounded by migmatitic overgrowth with ages ranging from ∼6 to ∼20Ma. Oxygen isotopic data of Neogene migmatite and inherited core is similar and indistin…
Northwest Africa provides unique insight into a wide range of geologic processes throughout a vast portion of Earth's history. Moroccan geology in particular can provide valuable insight, from the formations of West Africa through the Eburnian orogeny (~2000 Ma), Gondwana during…