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Potassium-argon dates and the Cenozoic mammalian chronology of North America

Jack F. Evernden, Donald E. Savage, Garniss H. Curtis, G. T. James

American Journal of Science · 1964 · 522 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

Potassium-argon ages of sanidines, biotites, and basalts are found to be in essential agreement with time-sequential dating of Tertiary land mammals. A detailed time scale of the Tertiary based on an age breakdown is given.--H.C.W.S