New garnets for old? Cautionary tales from young mountain belts

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 172, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 301-309

  Argles, T W ^a   Prince, C I ^a   Foster, G L ^a   Vance, D ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absolute age; Chronology; Garnet group; P T conditions; Sm Nd; Zoning

Indexed keywords

GARNET; GEOBAROMETRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OROGENIC BELT; P-T-T PATH;

EID: 0033377718     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00209-5     Document Type: Article

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