A refined astronomically calibrated 40Ar/39Ar age for Fish Canyon sanidine

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 311, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 420-426

  Rivera, Tiffany A ^a   Storey, Michael ^a   Zeeden, Christian ^b   Hilgen, Frederik J ^b   Kuiper, Klaudia ^b,c  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bishop Tuff; EARTHTIME; Geochronology; Neogene; Quaternary

Indexed keywords

BISHOP TUFF; CROSS CALIBRATION; DATING TECHNIQUES; EARTHTIME; HIGH-PRECISION; INTERCALIBRATION; MULTI-COLLECTOR; NEOGENE; NEUTRON FLUENCES; NOBLE GAS; QUATERNARY; SANIDINES; TEPHRAS; TIME-SCALES; WEIGHTED MEAN; ZIRCON AGE;

ERRORS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PETROLEUM REFINING; ZIRCON;

ARGON;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CALIBRATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL TIME; QUATERNARY; SANIDINE; TEPHRA; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COLORADO; FISH CANYON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80054977766     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.09.017     Document Type: Article

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