Zirconium and its stable isotopes in igneous systems

JL Guo, Z Wang, W Zhang, L Feng, F Moynier, Z Hu… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Zirconium, as a high field strength element, has been widely used to trace the differentiation
of terrestrial planets. It is also a major constituent in zircon, an important accessory mineral …

Current applications using key mineral phases in igneous and metamorphic geology: perspectives for the future

S Volante, E Blereau, M Guitreau… - Geological Society …, 2024 - lyellcollection.org
The study of magmatic and metamorphic processes is challenged by geological
complexities like geochemical variations, geochronological uncertainties and the …

Prograde zircon growth in migmatites

C Yakymchuk - Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Empirical studies of zircon in migmatites document features compatible with growth during
heating at suprasolidus conditions. However, numerical modelling of zircon behaviour …

A community-led calibration of the Zr isotope reference materials: NIST candidate RM 8299 and SRM 3169

FLH Tissot, M Ibañez-Mejia, SA Rabb… - Journal of Analytical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
As the field of zirconium (Zr) stable isotopes is rapidly expanding from the study of mass-
independent to that of mass-dependent isotope effects, a variety of Zr standards have …

Reliability of detrital marine sediments as proxy for continental crust composition: The effects of hydrodynamic sorting on Ti and Zr isotope systematics

M Klaver, SA MacLennan, M Ibañez-Mejia… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
The isotopic composition of the detrital sediment record harbours a valuable proxy for
estimating the composition of the erodible upper crust since the Archaean. Refractory …

Magmatic crystallization drives zircon Zr isotopic variations in a large granite batholith

Z Zhu, W Zhang, J Wang, Z Wang, JL Guo… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Stable zirconium (Zr) isotope of magmatic zircons is a promising new tracer to understand
magma differentiation in the continental crust. However, magmatic processes controlling …

Zirconium stable isotope fractionation during intra-crustal magmatic differentiation in an active continental arc

LJ Zieman, M Ibañez-Mejia, FLH Tissot… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2024 - Elsevier
Zirconium (Zr) stable isotope variations occur among co-existing Zr-rich accessory phases
as well as at the bulk-rock scale, but the petrologic mechanism (s) responsible for Zr isotope …

Zircon petrochronology in large igneous provinces reveals upper crustal contamination processes: new U–Pb ages, Hf and O isotopes, and trace elements from the …

J Davies, A Marzoli, H Bertrand, N Youbi… - … to Mineralogy and …, 2021 - Springer
Zircon occasionally crystallizes in evolved melt pockets in mafic large igneous province (LIP)
magmas, and in these cases, it is used to provide high-precision age constraints on LIP …

Diffusion anisotropy of Ti in zircon and implications for Ti-in-zircon thermometry

EM Bloch, MC Jollands, P Tollan, F Plane… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ti-in-zircon thermometry has become a widely used tool to determine zircon crystallization
temperatures, in part due to reports of extremely sluggish Ti diffusion perpendicular to the …

Stable zirconium isotopic fractionation during alkaline magma differentiation: Implications for the differentiation of continental crust

Y Yuan, JL Guo, K Zong, L Feng, Z Wang… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Stable Zr isotopes have shown great potential in tracing magma differentiation. However, it
remains unclear if different magmatic systems have similar Zr isotopic evolution patterns …