Natures diffusion experiment:  The cooling-rate cooling-age correlation

Dunlap, William James

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Natures diffusion experiment: The cooling-rate cooling-age correlation

Date

2000

Authors

Dunlap, William James

Publisher

Geological Society of America Inc

Abstract

Correlation between the age of orogeny and the cooling rate of metamorphic rocks (through ∼ 500-180 °C), as determined through various radioisotopic dating methods, suggests that ancient orogens cooled at rates as much as two orders of magnitude slower