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The significance of potassium–argon ages in the vicinity of the charnockitic Ernabella Adamellite, Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

A. F. Wilson  and
D. C. Green
A. F. Wilson
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4067, Australia
D. C. Green
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland 4067, Australia
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Summary

Potassium–argon dates from hornblende-bearing pyroxene granulites in a large xenolith near the margin of the charnockitic Ernabella Adamellite, central Australia, are interpreted in the light of oxygen isotype studies of associated mineral phases which give a detailed thermal history of the Adamellite and associated rocks.

Type
Research Article
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 109 , Issue 6 , November 1972 , pp. 543 - 544
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1972

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