Sm-Nd dating of spatially controlled domains of garnet single crystals: A new method of high-temperature thermochronology

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 213, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 31-42

  Ducea, Mihai N ^a   Ganguly, Jibamitra ^a   Rosenberg, Erin J ^a   Patchett, P Jonathan ^a   Cheng, Weiji ^a   Isachsen, Clark ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Garnet; Nd isotopes; Single crystal; Thermochronology

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DATING METHOD; GARNET; HIGH TEMPERATURE; P-T CONDITIONS; SAMARIUM-NEODYMIUM DATING; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

EID: 0042198678     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00298-X     Document Type: Article

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