Natural blue zircon from Vesuvius

Zircon from syenitic ejecta of Vesuvius (Campania, Italy) is unusually blue, a property shared with gem zircon from Ratanakiri province (Cambodia), which turns from natural reddish-brown to blue when heated under reducing conditions. Here, the origins of these unusual crystals were traced through ge...

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Hauptverfasser: Sun, Yi (VerfasserIn) , Schmitt, Axel Karl (VerfasserIn) , Häger, Tobias (VerfasserIn) , Schneider, Marcus (VerfasserIn) , Pappalardo, Lucia (VerfasserIn) , Russo, Massimo (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: [2021]
In: Mineralogy and petrology
Year: 2021, Jahrgang: 115, Heft: 1, Pages: 21-36
ISSN:1438-1168
DOI:10.1007/s00710-020-00727-7
Online-Zugang:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00710-020-00727-7
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Verfasserangaben:Yi Sun, Axel K. Schmitt, Tobias Häger, Marcus Schneider, Lucia Pappalardo, Massimo Russo

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