U-Pb systematics of the McClure Mountain syenite: Thermochronological constraints on the age of the 40Ar/39Ar standard MMhb

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 151, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 615-630

  Schoene, Blair ^a   Bowring, Samuel A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APATITE; BADDELEYITE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYENITE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; TITANITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

EID: 33745346905     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00410-006-0077-4     Document Type: Article

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