Water-fluxed melting, also known as fluid-or water-present melting, is a fundamental process
in the differentiation of continents but its importance has been underestimated in the past 20 …

Detrital zircon geochronology is rapidly developing into an essential tool in Earth science
research because of the widespread occurrence of zircon in sedimentary systems; the wide …

Ultrahigh temperature (UHT) metamorphism is the most thermally extreme form of regional
crustal metamorphism, with temperatures exceeding 900° C. UHT crustal metamorphism is …

Ultrahigh-temperature (UHT; T max≥ 900° C) metamorphism requires unusually high heat
in continental crust at depths of 15–55 km, but how such extreme thermal conditions are …

The models recognize that ZrSiO 4, ZrTiO 4, and TiSiO 4, but not ZrO 2 or TiO 2, are
independently variable phase components in zircon. Accordingly, the equilibrium controlling …

Zircon and rutile are common accessory minerals whose essential structural constituents, Zr,
Ti, and Si can replace one another to a limited extent. Here we present the combined results …

Diffusion of Pb was characterized in natural and synthetic zircon under a range of
conditions. In most experiments, mixtures of Pb sulfate and ground zircon were used as the …

Rutile is the most common naturally occurring titanium dioxide polymorph and is widely
distributed as an accessory mineral in metamorphic rocks ranging from greenschist to …

XMapTools is a MATLAB©-based graphical user interface program for electron microprobe
X-ray image processing, which can be used to estimate the pressure–temperature …

The solubility of ZrO2 in rutile is strongly temperature‐dependent and has been identified as
a potentially powerful thermometer when the rutile coexists with an appropriate buffer …