New single crystal 40ar/ 39ar ages improve time scale for deposition of the Omo group, Omo-Turkana Basin, East Africa

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 169, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 213-226

  McDougall, Ian ^a,b   Brown, Francis H ^c   Vasconcelos, Paulo M ^a   Cohen, Benjamin E ^a   Thiede, David S ^a   Buchanan, Michael J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EAST AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN RIFT; ETHIOPIA; EXPLOSIVE ERUPTION; FUSION METHODS; NEW AGE; NUMBER OF SPECIES; PUMICE CLASTS; RHYOLITIC; TIME-SCALES; VERTEBRATE FOSSILS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS;

SINGLE CRYSTALS;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARGON-ARGON DATING; CRYSTAL; DEPOSITION; FOSSIL; HOMINID; TIMESCALE;

EAST AFRICAN RIFT; ETHIOPIA; OMO BASIN; TURKANA BASIN;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84857838397     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492010-188     Document Type: Article

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