Summary: | In an earlier geochronology paper in this same journal, discordant U-Pb ages on zircons from a dolerite dyke near Hamningberg, Varanger Peninsula, Finnmark, were interpreted to favour a Vendian (Ediacaran) age of intrusion for this dyke. A re-assessment of this interpretation, and further consideration of the field, geochemical and 40Ar\/39Ar or K\/Ar age characteristics that this dyke shares with other, unmetamorphosed, Devonian-age dolerite dykes in this same region of NE Norway and NW Russia, leads to the conclusion that the Hamningberg dolerite dyke is also most likely of Late Devonian age. 59298
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