A mid-Ordovician Rb-Sr isochron age from the Ingleton Group, North Yorkshire: Metamorphism or diagenesis?

Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 81-85

  Dodson, M H ^a   Robinson, Doug ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGENESIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METAMORPHISM; ORDOVICIAN; RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH YORKSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33845566488     PISSN: 00440604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/pygs.56.2.81     Document Type: Article

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