Extraction of diagenetic and detrital ages and of the 40Kdetrital/40Kdiagenetic ratio from K-Ar dates of clay fractions

Clays and Clay Minerals

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 93-103

  Szczebra, Marek ^a   Środoń, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Diagenetic age; Genetic algorithms; Illite age analysis; K Ar; Mixed ages

Indexed keywords

CLASSICAL METHODS; CLAY FRACTIONS; COMPUTER PROGRAMS; DECAY CONSTANTS; DIAGENETIC AGE; GRAIN FRACTIONS; ILLITE AGE ANALYSIS; K-AR; LINEAR EXTRAPOLATIONS; MASS FRACTIONS; MIXED AGES; NEW APPROACHES; POLYTYPE; POLYTYPES; ROCK SAMPLES; SIZE FRACTIONS; WEIGHT PERCENTS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ARGON; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

CLAY MINERALS;

DETRITAL DEPOSIT; DIAGENESIS; GENETIC ALGORITHM; ILLITE; POTASSIUM-ARGON DATING;

EID: 65549090625     PISSN: 00098604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2009.0570109     Document Type: Article

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