New ages for the climactic eruptions at Yellowstone: Single-crystal 40Ar/39Ar dating identifies contamination

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 343-346

  Gansecki, C A ^a,b   Mahood, G A ^a   McWilliams, M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON LASERS; ELECTRON PROBE MICROANALYSIS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

BULK CRYSTALS; IGNIMBRITES; MAGMA CHAMBER; NATURAL VARIATION; SINGLE GRAINS; WEIGHTED AVERAGES; XENOCRYSTS; YELLOWSTONES;

POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNIMBRITE; PHENOCRYST; PRECISION; SANIDINE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; QUATERNARY; VOLCANIC ASH;

HUCKLEBERRY RIDGE; UNITED STATES; WYOMING; YELLOWSTONE CALDERA; USA;

EID: 0031597333     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0343:NAFTCE>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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