Diapiric ascent and cooling of a sillimanite gneiss dome revealed by 40Ar/ 39Ar thermochronology: the Kigluaik Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 154, Issue , 1999, Pages 205-232

  Calvert, Andrew T ^a   Gans, Phillip B ^a   Amato, Jeffrey M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; DIAPIRISM; EXHUMATION; GNEISS; SILLIMANITE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033386464     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.154.01.09     Document Type: Article

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