An episodic Cretaceous cooling model for the Otago-Marlborough Schist, New Zealand, based on 40Ar/39Ar white mica ages

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 305-325

  Little, Timothy A ^a   Mortimer, Nick ^b   McWilliams, Michael ^c  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ar Ar geochronology; Cooling history; Cretaceous tectonics; Haast Schist; Marlborough Schist; Otago Schist

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; COOLING; CRETACEOUS; SCHIST;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0033386814     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1999.9514848     Document Type: Article

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