40Ar/39Ar chronostratigraphy of Altiplano-Puna volcanic complex ignimbrites reveals the development of a major magmatic province

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 821-840

  Salisbury, Morgan J ^a   Jicha, Brian R ^b   de Silva, Shanaka L ^a   Singer, Brad S ^b   Jiménez, Néstor C ^c   Ort, Michael H ^d  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN ANDRÉS   (Bolivia)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; AR METHOD; CENTRAL ANDES; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; ERUPTION RATES; ERUPTIVE HISTORY; IGNIMBRITES; INCREMENTAL CONSTRUCTION; NEO GENES; NEW AGE; NEW RESULTS; NORTHERN CHILE; OUTPUT RATE; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PLUTONS; SANIDINES; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; VOLCANIC COMPLEX; VOLCANIC EXPLOSIVITY INDICES; VOLCANIC FIELD; VOLCANIC OUTPUT;

MICA; REFINING;

VOLCANOES;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BATHOLITH; BIOTITE; CALDERA; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; IGNIMBRITE; MAGMA; SANIDINE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANOLOGY;

ANDES; BOLIVIA; CHILE;

EID: 79953798555     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30280.1     Document Type: Article

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