40Ar/39Ar thermochronometry of K-feldspar from the KTB borehole, Germany

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 158, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 67-79

  Warnock, Andrew C ^a   Zeitler, Peter K ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-40/ARGON-39 DATING; FELDSPAR; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; THERMOCHRONOMETRY;

GERMANY;

EID: 0031865721     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(98)00044-2     Document Type: Article

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