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Unconvincing evidence against the blocking temperature concept

Comments on: “40Ar-39Ar dating of high pressure metamorphic micas from the Gran Paradiso area (Western Alps): Evidence against the blocking temperature concept” by C. Chopin and H. Maluski

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  1. Faculté des Sciences, E.R.A. n∘ 806, and Laboratoire de Pétrologie, B.P. n∘ 239, F-54506, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy Cedex, France

    Jacqueline Desmons

  2. Abteilung für Isotopengeologie, Universität Bern, Erlachstrasse 9a, CH-3012, Bern, Switzerland

    Johannes C. Hunziker

  3. Département de Minéralogie, 13 rue des Maraichers, CH-1211, Genève, Switzerland

    Michel Delaloye

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Desmons, J., Hunziker, J.C. & Delaloye, M. Unconvincing evidence against the blocking temperature concept. Contr. Mineral. and Petrol. 80, 386–390 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00378011

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