Microprobe monazite geochronology: understanding geologic processes by integrating composition and chronology

ML Williams, MJ Jercinovic… - Annu. Rev. Earth Planet …, 2007 - annualreviews.org
Monazite is a light rare earth element (LREE)-bearing phosphate mineral that is present in a
wide variety of rock types, has an extremely variable composition reflecting host rock …

Accessories after the facts: Constraining the timing, duration and conditions of high-temperature metamorphic processes

RJM Taylor, CL Kirkland, C Clark - Lithos, 2016 - Elsevier
High-temperature metamorphic rocks are the result of numerous chemical and physical
processes that occur during a potentially long-lived thermal evolution. These rocks chart the …

Laser-ablation split-stream ICP petrochronology

ARC Kylander-Clark, BR Hacker, JM Cottle - Chemical Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
Laser-ablation split-stream (LASS) analysis—high-speed, high spatial-resolution,
simultaneous isotopic and elemental analysis—enables petrochronology at a new level …

Five generations of monazite in Langtang gneisses: implications for chronology of the Himalayan metamorphic core

MJ Kohn, MS Wieland, CD Parkinson… - Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Monazite grains from Greater Himalayan Sequence gneisses, Langtang valley,
Nepal, were chemically mapped and then dated in situ via Th–Pb ion‐microprobe analysis …

Tectonometamorphic discontinuities within the Greater Himalayan Sequence in Western Nepal (Central Himalaya): Insights on the exhumation of crystalline rocks

C Montomoli, S Iaccarino, R Carosi, A Langone… - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
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 …

Phase relations, reaction sequences and petrochronology

C Yakymchuk, C Clark… - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
At the core of petrochronology is the relationship between geochronology and the
petrological evolution of major mineral assemblages. The focus of this chapter is on …

Format and philosophy for collecting, compiling, and reporting microprobe monazite ages

ML Williams, MJ Jercinovic, P Goncalves, K Mahan - Chemical Geology, 2006 - Elsevier
Microprobe monazite dating has been increasingly used to constrain the timing of
deformation and metamorphism because of the potential to date very small monazite …

Timing of midcrustal metamorphism, melting, and deformation in the Mount Everest region of southern Tibet revealed by U (-Th)-Pb geochronology

JM Cottle, MP Searle, MSA Horstwood… - The Journal of …, 2009 - journals.uchicago.edu
Abstract U (-Th)-Pb dating of zircon, monazite, and xenotime from metamorphic and igneous
rocks at two outcrops along a north-south transect in the Mount Everest region of southern …

The South Tibetan Detachment System: history, advances, definition and future directions

DA Kellett, JM Cottle, KP Larson - Geological Society, London …, 2019 - lyellcollection.org
Recognition and subsequent study of the syn-convergent low-angle normal faults and shear
zones–the South Tibetan Detachment System (STDS)–that form the upper boundary of the …

Pressure–temperature–time–deformation path of kyanite-bearing migmatitic paragneiss in the Kali Gandaki valley (Central Nepal): Investigation of Late Eocene–Early …

S Iaccarino, C Montomoli, R Carosi, HJ Massonne… - Lithos, 2015 - Elsevier
Kyanite-bearing migmatitic paragneiss of the lower Greater Himalayan Sequence (GHS) in
the Kali Gandaki transect (Central Himalaya) was investigated. In spite of the intense …