Thermochronological constraints on Mesozoic tectonism in southwest US and New Zealand; and argon-argon age spectra from artificially mixed micas
The four chapters in this dissertation consist of projects that utilized 40Ar/39Ar thermochronometry. Chapters 1 and 2 are from a study of the Sisters shear zone on Stewart Island, New Zealand. In these studies, thermal histories obtained using 40Ar/39Ar thermochronometry were combined with field an...
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Digital Scholarship@UNLV
2007
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Online Access: | https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/rtds/2771 https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3770&context=rtds |