Timing and duration of volcanism in the Columbia River Basalt Group: A review of existing radiometric data and new constraints on the age of the Steens through Wanapum Basalt extrusion

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 497, Issue , 2013, Pages 67-85

  Baksi, Ajoy K ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARGON-ARGON DATING; EXTRUSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOMAGNETISM; LAVA; MIOCENE; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; VOLCANISM;

EID: 84887226070     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2013.2497(03)     Document Type: Review

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