Apophyllite 40Ar/39Ar and Rb-Sr geochronology: Potential utility and application to the timing of secondary mineralization of the Kirkpatrick Basalt, Antarctica

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 104, Issue B9, 1999, Pages 20081-20095

  Fleming, Thomas H ^a   Poland, Kenneth A ^a   Elliot, David H ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DATING METHOD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MINERALIZATION;

ANTARCTICA;

EID: 0033543295     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jb900138     Document Type: Article

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