Accessory Minerals in Earth Sciences: Contemporary Trends
A special issue of Minerals (ISSN 2075-163X). This special issue belongs to the section "Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 6989
Special Issue Editors
Interests: U-Pb accessory minerals dating; CHIME application to detrital monazite; heavy mineral characterization and paleoreconstruction of the source area; tektite and impactite characterization
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Interests: regional-scale mineral systems and tectonics; trace element and isotope chemistry of major and accessory mineral phases; geochronology; dating of mineral deposits using accessory phosphate minerals
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Interests: large igneous provinces; dykes, sills, and flood basalts; U-Pb geochronology of various accessory mineral phases in mafic rocks; paleomagnetism of mafic rocks; paleogeography and environmental change, with a focus specifically on the Precambrian
Interests: heavy mineral analysis (HMA) in paleogeographic reconstructions of sedimentary ore formation; heavy metal pollution; their migration and secondary phases crystallization; XRD method in the phase composition determination of various materials
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
An accessory mineral is defined as a mineral that typically makes up no more than 1% of a rock. It does not necessarily indicate one particular mineral species, as thousands of minerals could potentially fall under that definition. However, only a very limited number are found in high abundance. Additionally, many accessory mineral phases are sensitive recorders for pre-, syn- and post-formational processes. They can also be indicators for the behavior of specific elements, especially trace elements. Usually, they are complex in terms of their chemical and isotopic composition, and their structural state as well.
State-of-the-art research in Earth sciences is increasingly being driven by new progress in analytical capabilities. The development of sophisticated and sensitive equipment, such as mass spectrometry, has led to the adoption of techniques that deploy either a single accessory mineral and have become standard techniques because of their relative ease of operation, and the rapid production of data, i.e., the use of laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry toward detrital zircon provenance studies. The study of accessory minerals has thus increased exponentially during the past twenty years and is ever increasing. Highly specialized and advanced techniques of analyses with increasing resolution and precision, both on separated mineral phases and in situ, make them powerful tools for different fields of the Earth sciences, from U-Pb geochronology to provenance studies, petrochronology, petrology, etc.
Dr. Simon Johnson
Dr. Krzysztof Szopa
Dr. Ashley Gumsley
Dr. Tomasz Krzykawski
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- geochronology
- U-Pb dating
- trace elements
- REEs
- accessories
- petrology
