U–Th–Pb zircon geochronology by ID-TIMS, SIMS, and laser ablation ICP-MS: Recipes, interpretations, and opportunities

U Schaltegger, AK Schmitt, MSA Horstwood - Chemical Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
The chronologic record encoded in accessory minerals, based on the radioactive decay of U
and Th, is indispensable to extract quantitative process rates over timescales encompassing …

[HTML][HTML] Sources of bias in detrital zircon geochronology: Discordance, concealed lead loss and common lead correction

T Andersen, MA Elburg, BN Magwaza - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
The distribution pattern of U-Pb ages of detrital zircon in a sedimentary rock is commonly
assumed to reflect the ages of igneous or metamorphic processes in rocks that have …

Timing and tempo of the Great Oxidation Event

AP Gumsley, KR Chamberlain… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The first significant buildup in atmospheric oxygen, the Great Oxidation Event (GOE), began
in the early Paleoproterozoic in association with global glaciations and continued until the …

Combined zircon and cassiterite U–Pb dating of the Piaotang granite-related tungsten–tin deposit, southern Jiangxi tungsten district, China

R Zhang, J Lu, B Lehmann, C Li, G Li, L Zhang… - Ore Geology …, 2017 - Elsevier
The large low-grade Piaotang W–Sn deposit in the southern Jiangxi tungsten district of the
eastern Nanling Range, South China, is related to a hidden granite pluton of Jurassic age …

U–Pb geochronology documents out-of-sequence emplacement of ultramafic layers in the Bushveld Igneous Complex of South Africa

JE Mungall, SL Kamo, S McQuade - Nature Communications, 2016 - nature.com
Layered intrusions represent part of the plumbing systems that deliver vast quantities of
magma through the Earth's crust during the formation of large igneous provinces, which …

Dating the Bushveld Complex: timing of crystallization, duration of magmatism, and cooling of the world's largest layered intrusion and related rocks

JS Scoates, CJ Wall, RM Friedman, D Weis… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Paleoproterozoic Bushveld Complex, including the world's largest layered
intrusion and host to world-class stratiform chromium, platinum group element, and …

Petrochronology of zircon and baddeleyite in igneous rocks: Reconstructing magmatic processes at high temporal resolution

U Schaltegger, JHFL Davies - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Zircon (ZrSiO 4) and baddeleyite (ZrO 2) are common accessory minerals in igneous rocks
of felsic to mafic composition. Both minerals host trace elements substituting for Zr, among …

The Stillwater Complex: integrating zircon geochronological and geochemical constraints on the age, emplacement history and crystallization of a large, open-system …

CJ Wall, JS Scoates, D Weis, RM Friedman… - Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Neoarchean Stillwater Complex, one of the world's largest known layered
intrusions and host to a rich platinum-group element deposit known as the JM Reef …

A linear Hf isotope-age array despite different granitoid sources and complex Archean geodynamics: Example from the Pietersburg block (South Africa)

O Laurent, A Zeh - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Combined U–Pb and Lu–Hf isotope data from zircon populations are widely used to
constrain Hadean–Archean crustal evolution. Linear Hf isotope-age arrays are interpreted to …

Detrital zircon in an active sedimentary recycling system: Challenging the 'source‐to‐sink'approach to zircon‐based provenance analysis

T Andersen, H van Niekerk, MA Elburg - Sedimentology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The age and properties of detrital zircon in a sediment reflect properties of the rocks in which
the zircon crystallized, and not necessarily the immediate precursor of the host sediment …