Apatite has recently gained considerable attention as a mineral with many uses within the soil and planetary sciences. Apatite chemistry has recently given new insight into a wide range of geological processes and tools,such as magmatism, metasomatism, and planetary geochemistry,and geochronology. In their open-access Geology article, Emilie Bruand and colleagues expand the utility of apatite by presenting a novel way to fingerprint magma chemistry and petrogenesis using apatite inclusions within robust titanite and zircon.
Source: phys.org