Excess 40Ar transport scale and mechanism in high-pressure phengites: A case study from an eclogitized metabasite of the Dora-Maira nappe, western Alps

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1075-1090

  Scaillet, Stéphane ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Ctr Rech Synt Chim des Mineraux   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-40/ARGON-39 DATING; ECLOGITE; EXCESS ARGON; ISOTOPIC BUFFERING; METAMORPHISM; PHENGITE;

EUROPE, ALPS, DORA-MAIVA NAPPE;

EID: 0029773202     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-7037(95)00440-8     Document Type: Article

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