40 Ar/ 39 Ar radiometric dating to constrain the volcanic stratigraphy: The Mt. Etna methodological case

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 464, Issue , 2010, Pages 241-248

  De Beni, Emanuela ^a   Groppelli, Gianluca ^b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI GEOFISICA E VULCANOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOMETRY; VOLCANOES;

GEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; MT. ETNA; RADIOMETRIC DATING; STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK;

STRATIGRAPHY;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASALT; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; UNCONFORMITY; VOLCANIC LANDFORM; VOLCANOLOGY;

CATANIA [SICILY]; ETNA; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84875678879     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2010.2464(11)     Document Type: Article

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