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https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-537-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/ejm-33-537-2021
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23 Sep 2021
Research article |  | 23 Sep 2021

Zirconium-bearing accessory minerals in UK Paleogene granites: textural, compositional, and paragenetic relationships

Harvey E. Belkin and Ray Macdonald

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Zr-bearing accessory minerals in granites from Scotland and Northern Ireland, UK, have been examined with a scanning electron microscope and their compositions analyzed by electron microprobe. Four types of zircon were identified: magmatic, late-stage magmatic, and two hydrothermal types. Baddeleyite, dalyite, zirconolite, a eudialyte-group mineral, probable lemoynite, and Zr-bearing aegirine were also identified. These accessory minerals are used to help define the magmatic environment.