New 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Grande Ronde lavas, Columbia River Basalts, USA: Implications for duration of flood basalt eruption episodes

Lithos

Volumn 118, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 213-222

  Barry, T L ^a   Self, S ^a   Kelley, S P ^a   Reidel, S ^b   Hooper, P ^a   Widdowson, M ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

40Ar 39Ar dating; Columbia River Basalt Province; Continental flood basalts; Flood basalt volcanism

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; FLOOD BASALT; FLOW FIELD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAVA; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

COLUMBIA RIVER; SNAKE RIVER; UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE RIVER;

EID: 77954757934     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lithos.2010.03.014     Document Type: Article

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