40Ar/39Ar thermochronology using alkali feldspars: Real thermal history or mathematical mirage of microtexture?

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 136, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 92-110

  Parsons, Ian ^a   Brown, W L ^b   Smith, J V ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CRPG CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI FELDSPAR; ARGON-ARGON DATING; DIFFUSION; TEXTURE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

EID: 0032709476     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050526     Document Type: Article

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