Jurassic zircons from the Southwest Indian Ridge

The existence of ancient rocks in present mid-ocean ridges have long been observed but received less attention. Here we report the discovery of zircons with both reasonably young ages of about 5 Ma and abnormally old ages of approximate 180 Ma from two evolved gabbroic rocks that were dredged from t...

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Main Authors: Cheng, Hao, Zhou, Huaiyang, Yang, Qunhui, Zhang, Lingmin, Ji, Fuwu, Dick, Henry
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4869104/