The mineral zircon is extremely variable both in terms of external morphology and internal
textures. These features reflect the geologic history of the mineral, especially the relevant …

The Chinese spacecraft Chang'e-5 (CE-5) landed on the northern Ocean Procellarum and
returned 1,731 grams of regolith. The CE-5 regolith is composed mostly of fragments of …

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 …

This article presents a current (as of September 2019) list of recommended ages for proven
terrestrial impact structures (n= 200) and deposits (n= 46) sourced from the primary …

Abstract Sediment-hosted Pb-Zn deposits can be divided into two major subtypes. The first
subtype is clastic-dominated lead-zinc (CD Pb-Zn) ores, which are hosted in shale …

Hypervelocity impact processes are uniquely capable of generating shock metamorphism,
which causes mineralogical transformations and deformation that register pressure (P) and …

This book is a systematic guide to the recognition and interpretation of deformation
microstructures and mechanisms in minerals and rocks at the scale of a thin section …

The number of newly discovered and confirmed impact structures on earth is growing
continuously. In this review paper, the main attributes of 198 confirmed impact structures and …

Archaean greenstone belts and associated granitic rocks comprise some of the most diverse
rock types on the Earth's surface and were formed during the early stages of the …

The contributions of this book arose from a conference on ''Mineralogy and analytics of
highpurity SiO2 raw materials''held in June 2011 in Freiberg, Germany. The 15 chapters are …