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Tracer Geochemistry Seminar 4: Trace Element and Isotope Studies of Granitic Rocks
Overview of Granites and the "Granite Problem" (Ryan)
Papers:
McMindes: Trace element and Isotope profiles in Granites:
Gromet, L.P. and L.T. Silver, 1983, Rare earth element distributions among minerals in a granodiorite and their petrogenetic implications Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 47; 925-939.
Hill, R.I., L.T. Silver, B.W. Chappell, and H.P. Taylor, 1985, Solidification and recharge of SiO2-rich plutonic magma chambers Nature, 313; 643-646.
Beeman: Geochronology in Appalachian Granitic Rocks.
Mose, D.G. and S. Nagel, 1984, Rb-Sr age for the Robertson River Pluton in Virginia and its implication on the age of the Catoctin Formation. Geological Society of America Special Paper 194 ; 167-173.
Odom A.L, and P.D. Fullagar, 1984, RB-Sr whole-rock and inherited zircon ages of the plutonic suite of the Crossnore Complex, southern Appalachians, and their implications regarding the time of the opening of the Iapetus Ocean Geological Society of America Special Paper 194 ; 255-261.
Aleinikoff, J.N., R.E. Zartman, M. Walter, D.W. Rankin, P.T. Lyttle and W.C Burton, 1996, U-Pb ages of metarhyolites of the Cactoctin and Mount Rogers formations, Central and Southern Appalachians: evidence for two pulses of Iapetan rifting. American Journal of Science,; 428-454.