40Ar/39Ar whole-rock data constraints on Acadian diagenesis and Alleghanian cleavage in the Martinsburg Formation, eastern Pennsylvania

American Journal of Science

Volumn 296, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 766-788

  Wintsch, R P ^a   Kunk, M J ^b   Epstein, J B ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-40/ARGON-39 DATING; CLEAVAGE; DIAGENESIS; MUDSTONE; ORDOVICIAN; PALAEOZOIC; SLATE;

USA, PENNSYLVANIA;

EID: 0030423862     PISSN: 00029599     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2475/ajs.296.7.766     Document Type: Article

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