The Esfordi phosphate concentrate mainly contains fluorapatite, monazite, and xenotime as rare earth element (REE) minerals, accounting for 1.5% of rare earth metals. The monazite and xenotime minerals are refractory and their decomposition is only possible at high temperatures. Thus mechanical activation was used in the present work for this purpose. After 90 minutes of mechanical activation, ...

Klonowska, I. 2017. Deep subduction of the Seve Nappe Complex in the Scandinavian Caledonides. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 1595. 63 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0139-6. This thesis seeks to improve our understanding of the processes involved in continental collision zones, with a particular f...

Between the western and the eastern parts of the southern Alaskan Sanak–Baranof belt there exist variations in pluton spacing, geochronology, geochemistry and metamorphism. All such characteristics can be explained by increase in heat flux towards the eastern parts of the belt. Despite such differences, the initiation of magmatism propagated eastward at a constant rate of 19 cm/year throughout ...

Precision in electron microprobe analysis is primarily a matter of counting statistics, and involves voltage, beam current, counting time, and geometric efficiency. Besides potential issues with dead-time correction and beam damage, counting statistics do not significantly affect the accuracy of major and minor element analyses. Accuracy chiefly depends on standards and matrix correction. Addit...