Use of 40Ar/39Ar K-feldspar thermochronology in basin thermal history reconstruction: An example from the Big Lake Suite granites, Warburton Basin, South Australia

Basin Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 189-203

  McLaren, Sandra ^a,b   Dunlap, W James ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; THERMOCHRONOLOGY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; WARBURTON BASIN;

EID: 33745052091     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: 13652117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2006.00288.x     Document Type: Article

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