Zircon megacrysts from basalts of the Venetian Volcanic Province (NE Italy): U-Pb ages, oxygen isotopes and REE data

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2007

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Visonà, Dario
Caironi, Vincenzo
Carraro, Anna
Dallai, Luigi
Fioretti, Anna Maria
Fanning, Christopher

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Elsevier

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Mafic alkaline lavas from the Venetian Volcanic Province (NE Italy) contain orange-brown zircon megacrysts up to 15 mm long, subhedral to subrounded and showing equant morphology, with width-to-length ratios of 1:2-1:2.5. U-Pb ages of zircon (51.1 ± 1.5

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Keywords: basalt; fractional crystallization; isotopic composition; lava; mafic rock; megacryst; oxygen isotope; rare earth element; uranium-lead dating; zircon; Eurasia; Europe; Italy; Southern Europe Basalts; Mantle; Oxygen isotopes; SHRIMP U-Pb dating and REE; Venetian Volcanic Province (NE Italy); Zircon megacrysts

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