Having studied polymetamorphic complexes of the Urals, including its northern part, for many years we have collected material on the basis of which we attempted to make generalizations concerning both the morphology of zircons and their geochemical features, allowing the mineral to be used in the reconstruction of specific metamorphic events and the interpretation of geochronological data (Pystina et al. 2017;Pystina and Pystin 2002). In recent years we also obtained new results on the morphology and geochemistry of zircons from granitoids in the northern part of the Subpolar Urals (Pystina and Pystin 2002). Together, this made it possible to compare different morphological types of magmatic and metamorphic zircons.
Geochemistry of zircons 2 Results and DiscussionDetritic zircons (type 1) determine the metamorphic affiliation to one or another source formation. Zircons of the "soccer ball" type or, as is customary in the Urals, after Krasnobayev (1986), call them "granulitic" (type 2), and also "migmatite" (type 4) fix several age levels of occurrences of high-temperature rock transformations. Zircon of irregular shape like "cauliflower" (type 3) is typical for rocks metamorphosed under