40Ar/39Ar geochronology at the Instituto de Geociências, USP: instrumentation, analytical procedures, and calibration

Laser heating 40Ar/39Ar geochronology provides high analytical precision and accuracy, mum-scale spatial resolution, and statistically significant data sets for the study of geological and planetary processes. A newly commissioned 40Ar/39Ar laboratory at CPGeo/USP, São Paulo, Brazil, equips the Braz...

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Main Authors: PAULO M. VASCONCELOS, ARTUR T. ONOE, KOJI KAWASHITA, ADALBERTO J. SOARES, WILSON TEIXEIRA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2002-06-01
Series:Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652002000200008