Duration of sedimentation of the Creede Formation from 40Ar/ 39Ar ages

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 346, Issue , 2000, Pages 71-76

  Lanphere, Marvin A ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTITE; MICA; STRATIGRAPHY; VOLCANOES;

ASH LAYER; DRILL HOLE; OLIGOCENE;

SEDIMENTATION;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BIOTITE; CALDERA; MOUNTAIN REGION; OLIGOCENE; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TUFF; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 84870875578     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2346-9.71     Document Type: Article

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