New zircon fission-track ages from New Zealand quaternary tephra: An interlaboratory experiment and recommendations for the determination of young ages

Chemical Geology

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 127-140

  Seward, Diane ^a   Kohn, Barry P ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fission track; New Zealand; Pleistocene; Tephra; Zircon

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002439409     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(97)00086-7     Document Type: Article

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