In this chapter, an overview of the findings to date from laboratory measurements of diffusion
of cations in the accessory mineral phases zircon, monazite, apatite, titanite (sphene) and …

The dominant occurrence of phosphate minerals in crystalline rocks is as accessory phases,
most notably apatite, monazite, and xenotime. Because these minerals tend, to varying …

Microtectonics deals with the interpretation of microstructures, small-scale deformation
structures in rocks that yield abundant information on the history and type of deformation and …

The book is devoted to three types of laser-based spectroscopy of minerals, namely Laser-
Induced Time-Resolved Luminescence, Laser-Induced Breakdown spectroscopy and Gated …

Abraded fragments (200–400 μm) of a large, chemically homogeneous, and non-metamict
Brazilian monazite crystal, characterised by a concordant U–Pb ages of 474±1 Ma …

Low-temperature alteration of monazite is documented in three centimeter-sized monazite
crystals from Norway (Arendal), Madagascar (Ambato), and Sri Lanka. The three crystals …

The core of the Greater Himalayan Sequence in the Mugu-Karnali area (Western Nepal) is
affected by a thick shear zone with development of nearly 4 km of mylonites (Mangri shear …

The disposal of radioactive “waste” generated by the nuclear fuel cycle is among the most
pressing and potentially costly environmental problems of the 21st century, a heritage from …

Large quantities of monazite from different pegmatite bodies of the Itambe pegmatite district
were investigated to assess their suitability as U–Pb and Sm–Nd isotope reference materials …

It is said that during a voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921, the Indian physicist
Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman (1888–1970) looked at the wonderful blue opalescence of …