Petrochronology is a rapidly emerging branch of Earth science that links time (ages or rates) with specific rock-forming processes and their physical conditions. It is founded in petrology and geochemistry, which define a petrogenetic context or delimit a specific process, to which chronometric data are then linked. This combination informs Earth's petrogenetic processes better than petrology or geochronology alone. This volume and the accompanying short courses address three broad categories of inquiry. Conceptual approaches chapters include petrologic modeling of multi-component chemical and mineralogic systems, and development of methods that include diffusive alteration of mineral chemistry. Methods chapters address four main analytical techniques, specifically EPMA, LA-ICP-MS, SIMS and TIMS. Mineral-specific chapters explore applications to a wide range of minerals, including zircon (metamorphic, igneous, and detrital/Hadean), baddeleyite, REE minerals (monazite, allanite, xenotime and apatite), titanite, rutile, garnet, and major igneous minerals (olivine, plagioclase and pyroxenes). These applications mainly focus on metamorphic, igneous, or tectonic processes, but additionally elucidate fundamental transdisciplinary progress in addressing mechanisms of crystal growth, the chemical consequences of mineral growth kinetics, and how chemical transport and deformation affect chemically complex mineral composites. Most chapters further recommend areas of future research.

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Publisher

De Gruyter

Year

2019

ISBN

9783110561890

Edition

Topic

Physical Sciences

Subtopic

Geology & Earth Sciences

Preface
Table of Contents
1. Significant Ages - An Introduction to Petrochronology
2. Phase Relations, Reaction Sequences and Petrochronology
3. Local Bulk Composition Effects on Metamorphic Mineral Assemblages
4. Diffusion: Obstacles and Opportunities in Petrochronology
5. Electron Microprobe Petrochronology
6. Petrochronology by Laser-Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry
7. Secondary Ionization Mass Spectrometry Analysis in Petrochronology
8. Petrochronology and TIMS
9. Zircon: The Metamorphic Mineral
10. Petrochronology of Zircon and Baddeleyite in Igneous Rocks: Reconstructing Magmatic Processes at High Temporal Resolution
11. Hadean Zircon Petrochronology
12. Petrochronology Based on REE-Minerals: Monazite, Allanite, Xenotime, Apatite
13. Titanite Petrochronology
14. Petrology and Geochronology of Rutile
15. Garnet: A Rock-Forming Mineral Petrochronometer
16. Chronometry and Speedometry of Magmatic Processes using Chemical Diffusion in Olivine, Plagioclase and Pyroxenes
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