Ar/39Ar and Nd-Sr isotopic characteristics of mid-Ordovician North American K-Bentonites: A test of early Paleozoic Laurentia-Gondwana interactions

Tectonics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1084-1092

  Samson, Scott D ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-40/ARGON-39 DATING; BENTONITE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ORDOVICIAN; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY; PROVENANCE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0030430932     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96TC00829     Document Type: Article

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