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Science 4 June 1971:
Vol. 172. no. 3987, p. 1028
DOI: 10.1126/science.172.3987.1028
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Obsidian Hydration Dating Applied to Dating of Basaltic Volcanic Activity

Irving Friedman 1 and Norman Peterson 2

1 U.S. Geological Survey. Denver, Colorado 80225
2 Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, Grants Pass 97526

Basalt flows and bombs that contain remelted rhyolite glass can be dated by obsidian hydration dating.


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Hydration Rate of Obsidian.
I. Friedman, I. Friedman, and W. Long (1976)
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