It is found with other rare earth elements in minerals such as monazite, cerite, gadolinite, xenotime, and euxenite. |
The monazite crystals range from reversely discordant to within error of concordant to slightly normally discordant. |
The unusual age zonation is probably linked to the mineralogical association of monazite and apatite during metamorphic reactions. |
The sample contains graphite, but no monazite was found in the heavy mineral concentrates. |
Eighteen analyses of detrital zircon and one of monazite were carried out for the late Silurian sandstone. |
Lower amphibolite-grade regional metamorphism predating intrusion of the Ballachulish Igneous Complex may have resulted in some monazite growth. |