Multimethod (K-Ar, Rb-Sr, Sm-Nd) dating of bentonite minerals from the eastern United States

Basin Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 261-270

  Toulkeridis, Theofilos ^a,e   Clauer, Norbert ^b   Chaudhuri, Sam ^c   Goldstein, Steve L ^d  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UMR 7063   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENTONITE; DATING METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY;

EID: 0031695923     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2117.1998.00065.x     Document Type: Article

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