40Ar-39Ar thermochronology of the southern Gawler Craton, Australia: Implications for mesoproterozoic and neoproterozoic tectonics of East Gondwana and Rodinia

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 10177-10193

  Foster, David A ^a,c   Ehlers, Karin ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON/ARGON DATING; GONDWANA; PROTEROZOIC; TECTONICS; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA; GAWLER CRATON;

EID: 0032503177     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98jb00151     Document Type: Article

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