Tectonothermal evolution of metamorphic rocks in the south-central Brooks Range, Alaska: Constraints from 40Ar/39Ar geochronology

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 324, Issue , 1998, Pages 225-251

  Gottschalk, Richard R ^a   Snee, Lawrence W ^b  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTITE; DEFORMATION; DYNAMIC RECRYSTALLIZATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MICA; RIVERS;

BLUESCHISTS; EARLY CRETACEOUS; HIGH PRESSURE; LATE CRETACEOUS; METAMORPHIC CONDITIONS; METAMORPHIC EVENTS; SOUTH-TO-NORTH; STUDY AREAS;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

AGE AT RECRUITMENT; ARGON ISOTOPE; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCK; METAMORPHISM; PLATEAU; RECRYSTALLIZATION;

ALASKA; BROOKS RANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870846512     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2324-8.225     Document Type: Article

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