Minor Minerals, Major Implications: Using Key Mineral Phases to Unravel the Formation and Evolution of Earth's Crust: 537 (Geological Society of London Special Publications)

vi, 489 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). Summary:Key minerals, including zircon, apatite, titanite, rutile, monazite, xenotime, allanite and garnet, can retain critical information about petrogenetic and geodynamic processes. This edited volume showcases snapshots of the latest developments using key minerals in igneous, metamorphic and detrital rocks through current-state reviews, contributions focused on case studies and newly developed techniques.