Evolution of the neogene Gurghiu Mountains volcanic range (Eastern Carpathians, Romania), based on K-Ar geochronology

Geologica Carpathica

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 325-332

  Seghedi, Ioan ^a   Szakács, Alexandru ^a   Snelling, Norman J ^b   Pécskay, Zoltán ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEODYNAMICS   (Romania)

^b Hungarian Academy of Sciences ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Debris avalanche; Eastern Carpathians; Gurghiu Mountains; K Ar data; Volcanology

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; NEOGENE; POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING; VOLCANIC ROCK;

CARPATHIANS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GURGHIU MOUNTAINS; ROMANIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 4444359247     PISSN: 13350552     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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