How to use in-sentence of “zircon”:
– This zircon is part of a population of zircons in the metamorphosed conglomerate.
– Age and duration of the Emeishan flood volcanism, SW China: geochemistry and SHRIMP zircon U-Pb dating of silicic ignimbrites, post-volcanic Xuanwei Formation and clay tuff at the Chaotian section.
– They were deposited about 3.060bya, which is the age of the youngest detrital zircon in the rock.
– Therefore, we can assume that the entire lead content of the zircon is radiogenic.
– The oldest minerals on Earth– small crystals of zircon from the Jack Hills of Western Australia– are at least 4.4 billion years old.
– In the United States, zircon is considered to be the birth stone for the month of December.
