40Ar/39Ar age constraints on tectonothermal events in the Shaw area of the eastern Pilbara granite-greenstone terrain (W Australia): 700 Ma of Archean tectonic evolution

Tectonophysics

Volumn 311, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 45-81

  Zegers, T E ^a   Wijbrans, J R ^b   White, S H ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

40 argon 39 argon; Archean; Pilbara Craton; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; ARGON-ARGON DATING; GRANITE; GREENSTONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033382058     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00157-2     Document Type: Article

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