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Obsidian Hydration Dating Applied to Dating of Basaltic Volcanic Activity

Irving Friedman, Norman Peterson

Science · 1971 · 11 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

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

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Part I, The Development of the Method

Irving Friedman, Robert L. Smith · American Antiquity · 1960 · 222 citations

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Hydration Rind Dates Rhyolite Flows

Irving Friedman · Science · 1968 · 42 citations

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Obsidian Hydration Rate for the Klamath Basin of California and Oregon

Leroy Johnson · Science · 1969 · 27 citations

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