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light-colored
zircons. The
English word "
zircon" is
derived from Zirkon,
which is the
German adaptation of this word. Yellow, orange, and red
zircon is...
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zircon is the oldest-surviving
crustal material from the Earth's
earliest geological time period, the
Hadean eon,
about 4
billion years ago.
Zircon is...
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Detrital zircon geochronology is the
science of
analyzing the age of
zircons deposited within a
specific sedimentary unit by
examining their inherent...
- such as
ChromeOS and Android,
Fuchsia is
based on a
custom kernel named Zircon. It
publicly debuted as a self-hosted git
repository in
August 2016 without...
- from the name of the
mineral zircon, the most
important source of zirconium. The word is
related to
Persian zargun (
zircon; zar-gun, "gold-like" or "as...
- Hadean-Archean boundary.
Hadean rocks are very rare,
largely consisting of
granular zircons from one
locality (Jack Hills) in
Western Australia.
Hadean geophysical...
- violet-red / orange-red
Morganite (medium):
light red / red-violet
Tourmaline (strong): dark red /
light red
Zircon (medium):
purple / red-brown Birefringence...
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Zirconium dioxide (ZrO 2),
sometimes known as
zirconia (not to be
confused with
zircon), is a
white crystalline oxide of zirconium. Its most
naturally occurring...
- and granitoids,
including orthopyroxene-bearing charnockites.
Analysis of
zircon minerals in the
granite completed by John
Aleinikoff at the U.S. Geological...
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partial melting of this
mafic crust. The
presence of
grains of the
mineral zircon of
Hadean age in
Eoarchean sedimentary rocks suggests that at
least some...