Detrital zircon and apatite (U-Th)/He geochronology of intercalated baked sediments: A new approach to dating young basalt flows

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Cooper, Frances J ^a   Van Soest, Matthijs C ^a   Hodges, Kip V ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

(U Th) He; geochronology; New Mexico; Rio Grande Rift; Taos Plateau Volcanic Field; volcanology

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; APATITE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MODELS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VOLCANOES; ZIRCON; SEDIMENTS;

(U-TH)/HE; NEW MEXICO; RIO GRANDE RIFT; VOLCANIC FIELD; VOLCANOLOGY;

BASALT;

APATITE; BASALT; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LAVA FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLEISTOCENE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; VOLCANOLOGY; ZIRCON;

NEW MEXICO; RIO GRANDE RIFT; TAOS PLATEAU VOLCANIC FIELD; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960044935     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GC003650     Document Type: Article

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