Dating incipient metamorphism using 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and XRD modeling: A case study from the Swiss Alps

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 135, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 93-113

  Jaboyedoff, Michel ^a   Cosca, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARGON-ARGON DATING; METAMORPHISM; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0032887698     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050500     Document Type: Article

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