Dating crystalline groundmass separates of altered Cretaceous seamount basalts by the 40Ar/39Ar incremental heating technique

Chemical Geology

Volumn 166, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 139-158

  Koppers, Anthony A P ^a,b   Staudigel, Hubert ^a,b   Wijbrans, Jan R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar geochronology; Groundmass; Incremental heating; Recoil; Seamount basalts; Seawater alteration

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASALT; CRETACEOUS; SEAMOUNT; SEAWATER;

EID: 0034192011     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(99)00188-6     Document Type: Article

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