K-Ar dating of white micas from the Ventersdorp Contact Reef of the Witwatersrand Basin, South Africa: Timing of post-depositional alteration

Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 66, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 149-170

  Zhao, B ^a   Clauer, N ^b   Robb, L J ^a   Zwingmann, H ^b   Toulkeridis, T ^b   Meyer, F M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UMR 7063   (France)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; MICA; MINERALIZATION; POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING; PRECAMBRIAN;

SOUTH AFRICA; WITWATERSRAND;

EID: 0038355824     PISSN: 09300708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01161726     Document Type: Article

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