Laser fusion argon-40/argon-39 ages of Darwin impact glass

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1555-1562

  Lo, Ching Hua ^a   Howard, Kieren T ^b   Chung, Sun Lin ^a   Meffre, Sebastien ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; GLASS; IMPACT STRUCTURE; LASER; TEKTITE;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 0036863984     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2002.tb00810.x     Document Type: Article

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