Neocrystallization or cooling? 40Ar/39Ar ages of white micas from low-grade mylonites

Chemical Geology

Volumn 143, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 181-203

  Dunlap, W J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ar Ar; Crystallization; Deformation; Muscovite; Recrystallization; Thermal diffusivity

Indexed keywords

ARGON-40/ARGON-39 DATING; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEFORMATION; MUSCOVITE; MYLONITE; RECRYSTALLIZATION; THERMAL DIFFUSIVITY;

EID: 0031420206     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(97)00113-7     Document Type: Article

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