40Ar/39Ar age of the Jurassic North Mountain Basalt southwestern Nova Scotia

Atlantic Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-53

  Kontak, Daniel J ^a   Archibald, Douglas A ^b  

^a Nova Scotia Dept of Natural Rsrc   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASALT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; JURASSIC;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF FUNDY; CANADA; MINAS BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA;

EID: 1842713360     PISSN: 08435561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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