Volcanic biotite-sanidine 40Ar/39Ar age discordances reflect Ar partitioning and pre-eruption closure in biotite

Geology

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 923-926

  Hora, John M ^a,b   Singer, Brad S ^a   Jicha, Brian R ^a   Beard, Brian L ^a   Johnson, Clark M ^a   de Silva, Shan ^c   Salisbury, Morgan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDEPENDENT AGE CONTROL; INFINITE RESERVOIRS; ISOTOPIC EQUILIBRATION; ISOTOPIC SYSTEMS; MAGMATIC SYSTEMS; RE-EVALUATION; SANIDINES; VOLUME DIFFUSION;

CHRONOMETERS; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MICA; MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

ARGON;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BIOTITE; CRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MAGMATISM; PARTITIONING; SANIDINE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC ROCK;

EID: 77958083027     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31064.1     Document Type: Article

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