Spatially correlated anomalous 40Ar/39Ar "age" variations in biotites about a lithologic contact near Simplon Pass, Switzerland: A mechanistic explanation for excess Ar

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1067-1083

  Baxter, Ethan F ^a   DePaolo, Donald J ^a   Renne, Paul R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE; ARGON ISOTOPE; ARGON-ARGON DATING; BIOTITE; PELITE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SIMPLON;

EID: 0003273552     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(01)00828-6     Document Type: Article

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