zircon
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Some of zircon crystals were “shocked”—inscribed with linear fracture patterns that are the hallmark of an impact.
From Science Magazine
To get a clue as to how they had ended up in modern-day Wyoming, the team crushed the rocks to retrieve and date the zircon crystals contained inside, a bit like studying ancient fingerprints.
From New York Times
Titanium concentrations in 4-billion-year-old zircon crystals from Western Australia suggest they formed underwater.
From Science Magazine
Tang was analyzing granite rocks from the Himalaya of southern Tibet when he noticed a curious pattern in their crystals of the mineral zircon.
From National Geographic
We processed the samples by grinding and extracting zircon crystals, which can preserve unstable isotopes of uranium.
From Scientific American
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