The zircon archive of continent formation through time
The strong resilience of the mineral zircon and its ability to host a wealth of isotopic information make it the best deep-time archive of Earth’s continental crust. Zircon is found in most felsic igneous rocks, can be precisely dated and can fingerprint magmatic sources; thus, it has been widely us...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Geological Society Publishing House
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25496 |