Modern techniques and Old Red problems - Determining the age of continental sedimentary deposits with40Ar/39Ar provenance analysis in west-central Norway

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 85, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 133-145

  Eide, Elizabeth A ^a   Haabesland, Nils Erik ^b   Osmundsen, Per Terje ^a   Andersen, Torgeir B ^b   Roberts, David ^a   Kendrick, Mark A ^c  

^a Gological Survey of Norway   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL ARC; DEVONIAN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OLD RED SANDSTONE; PROVENANCE TRIAL; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

MICAS;

EID: 33644755040     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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