The timing of high-temperature retrogression in the Reynolds Range, central Australia: Constraints from garnet and epidote Pb-Pb dating

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 135, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 244-254

  Buick, Ian S ^a   Frei, Robert ^b   Cartwright, Ian ^c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; EPIDOTE; GARNET; LEAD-LEAD DATING; RETROGRESSION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0032888628     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050510     Document Type: Article

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