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40Ar/39Ar dating of a hydrothermal pegmatitic buddingtonite–muscovite assemblage from Volyn, Ukraine
Gerhard Franz
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften, Technische
Universität Berlin, Berlin, 10587, Germany
Masafumi Sudo
Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam, 14476, Germany
Vladimir Khomenko
Semenenko Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Ore Formation,
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, pr. Palladina 34, Kiev, 03680
Ukraine
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Short summary
The age of formation of buddingtonite, ammonium-bearing feldspar, can be dated with the Ar–Ar method; however, it may often give only minimum ages due to strong resetting. In the studied example it gives a Precambrian minimum age of fossils, associated with this occurrence, and the age of the accompanying mineral muscovite indicates an age near 1.5 Ga. We encourage more dating attempts of buddingtonite, which will give valuable information of diagenetic or hydrothermal events.
The age of formation of buddingtonite, ammonium-bearing feldspar, can be dated with the Ar–Ar...