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Isotopic dating of the post-alpine Neogene volcanism in the Betic Cordilleras, Southern Spain

Year: 1981

Type: article

Abstract: The post-Alpine lamproitic volcanism in the Prebetic of the External Zone of the Betic Cordilleras of southern Spain is dated at 7.6-7.2 Ma by the K-Ar data from two richterites, two sanidines, a phlogopite and a whole-rock, and the fission-track analysis of an apatite. Biotite from a lava of the rhyolitic-dacitic suite in the post-orogenic Vera basin of the Internal Zone produces the same age. Phlogopite from a lamproitic (veritic) subvolcanic body in the Vera basin yields an age of about 8.6 Ma; as lavas belonging to the veritic suite reportedly overlie Late Messinian sediments, pointing to an age of less than about 5 Ma, this type of volcanism in the Vera basin must have been active over several million years

Source: Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en Mijnbouw

Authors: F. A. Nobel, P. A. M. Andriessen, E. H. Hebeda, H. N. A. Priem, H. E. Rondeel

Language: English

Topic: Geological and Geochemical Analysis

Subfield: Geochemistry and Petrology

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Universiteit van Amsterdam

OpenAlex ID: W3015483592

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