Rb-Sr and 40Ar-39Ar laser probe dating of high-pressure phengites from the Sesia zone (Western Alps): Underscoring of excess argon and new age constraints on the high-pressure metamorphism

Chemical Geology

Volumn 141, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 1-18

  Ruffet, Gilles ^a   Gruau, Gérard ^b   Ballèvre, Michel ^b   Féraud, Gilbert ^a   Philippot, Pascal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

HP metamorphism; Rb Sr; Sesia zone; Western Alps

Indexed keywords

ARGON-40/ARGON-39 DATING; ECLOGITE; METAMORPHISM; PHENGITE; RUBIDIUM/STRONTIUM DATING;

ITALY, ALPS, SESIA ZONE;

EID: 0031459758     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(97)00052-1     Document Type: Article

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