Re-Os ages for Archean molybdenite and pyrite, Kuittila-Kivisuo, Finland and Proterozoic molybdenite, Kabeliai, Lithuania: Testing the chronometer in a metamorphic and metasomatic setting

Mineralium Deposita

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 329-345

  Stein, H J ^a,b   Sundblad, K ^c   Markey, R J ^a   Morgan, J W ^a   Motuza, G ^d  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d Geological Survey of Lithuania   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHISM; METASOMATISM; MOLYBDENITE; PROTEROZOIC; PYRITE; RHENIUM-OSMIUM DATING;

FINLAND; LITHUANIA;

EID: 0032458167     PISSN: 00264598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001260050153     Document Type: Article

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