40Ar/39Ar dating of detrital white mica of Upper Paleozoic sandstones in the Carnic Alps (Austria): Implications for provenance and tectonic setting

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 133-144

  Mader, Dieter ^a,b   Neubauer, Franz ^a   Handler, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ar Ar dating; Detrital mica; Late Paleozoic; Provenance; Sandstones; Southern Apls

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ARGON-ARGON DATING; DEPOSITION VELOCITY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; ELECTRON PROBE ANALYSIS; MICA; OROGENY; PALEOZOIC; PROVENANCE; SANDSTONE; SOURCE ROCK; TECTONIC SETTING; TURBIDITY;

ALPS; CARNIC ALPS; EASTERN ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

MICAS;

EID: 34249986691     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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