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Some one mentioned about formation of zircon associated with other hypothermal mineral assemblage (300-500 C). Do we get really zircon in association with hypothermal mineral assemblage? How and...
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I have seen overgrowths on zircon, both in igneous and sedimentary rocks In igneous rocks it is assumed that...such zircons are as a result of S-type nature of the granite, but in sedimentary...
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I have observed that sometimes a granite, by its essential mineralogy, doesn't contain any kind of accessory minerals. No single grain of opaque/ transparent accessory minerals which normally...
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Before taking up geochronological studies we do detailed petrpgraphy with reference to deformation and alteration....to find its suitability for radiometric dating what criteria should be used to...
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Can we expect Euxenite and Gadolinite in carbonatites? What are the minerals which can contain Scandium apart from these two? What could be the source of Scandium in carbonatites?
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apart from occurring in zircon? what are the other possibilities of getting higher hafnium in chemical analysis of carbonatites? Is there any other mineral which could possibly accommodate hafnium?
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What is the maximum content of Hf which can be present in zircon structure? what is the significance of its presence?
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Weathering and alteration are usually near surface phenomena. I am observing rocks collected from>100 meters depth...which are highly altered. what kind of alterations are prominent at greater...
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Pyrochlore is the common Nb bearing phase in carbonatites what other minerals account for the high Nb content of these rocks?
23 November 2016 7,944 7 View
The rocks are highly brecciated, ferrugenised and silicified. besides other alterations fracture filling minerals are present that give variable chemical compositions. Because of ferrugenisation...
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