Dating fault-generated pseudotachylytes: Comparison of 40 Ar/ 39 Ar stepwise-heating, laser-ablation and Rb-Sr microsampling analyses

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 57-77

  Müller, Wolfgang ^a   Kelley, Simon P ^b   Villa, Igor M ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; DATING METHOD; FAULTING; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MELTING; PSEUDOTACHYLITE;

EID: 0036819481     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-002-0381-6     Document Type: Article

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