Yet another attempt to date the Banco Bonito rhyolite, the youngest volcanic flow in the Valles caldera, New Mexico

New Mexico Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 117-121

  Lepper, Kenneth ^a   Goff, Fraser ^b  

^a NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLUVIAL DEPOSIT; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; EXTRUSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAVA FLOW; LUMINESCENCE DATING; RHYOLITE; VOLCANISM;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VALLES CALDERA;

KATSUWONUS PELAMIS;

EID: 37249010517     PISSN: 0196948X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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