Precise 40Ar/39Ar ages from the metamorphic sole of the Mersin ophiolite (southern Turkey)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 301, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 145-158

  Parlak, Osman ^a   Delaloye, Michel ^b  

^a CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ar Ar; Mersin ophiolite; Metamorphic sole; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; METAMORPHIC ROCK; OPHIOLITE;

TURKEY;

EID: 0033555182     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00222-4     Document Type: Article

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