Laser 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology of Archean rocks in Yellowknife Domain, southwestern Slave Province: Insights into the cooling history of an Archean granite-greenstone terrane1

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1189-1206

  Bethune, Kathryn M ^a   Villeneuve, Michael E ^b   Bleeker, Wouter ^a,c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; ARGON-ARGON DATING; COOLING; GRANITE; GREENSTONE BELT; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

CANADA;

EID: 0033510816     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e99-006     Document Type: Article

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