National Geochronological Database sample #2694

Outcrop or artificial surface exposure, Rhyolite

Geographic location
-115.45, 35.694444
115° 27' " W, 35° 41' 40" N
Clark county, NV
Roach Lake 1:62,500 scale map quadrangle
Accurate to within 1 minute (~1 mile)
DEVILS PEAK (PROBABLY DEVIL PEAK--COMPILER)
Source of sample Outcrop or artificial surface exposure
Rock name Rhyolite
Laboratories Yale
Compiler name Emsing, L.L.
Date compiled 1977 08
Precision of location Accurate to within 1 minute (~1 mile)
Location comment DEVILS PEAK (PROBABLY DEVIL PEAK--COMPILER)
Bibliographic reference Armstrong, R.L., 1970, Geochronology Of Tertiary Igneous Rocks, Eastern Basin and Range Province, Western Utah, Eastern Nevada, and Vicinity, U.S.A.: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 34, p. 203-232
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Geologic map unit -115.45, 35.694444
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K-Ar age determinations

Age estimate 13.05 ± 0.3Ma
age of intrusion
Type of analysis conventional K-Ar
DUPLICATE K ANALYSES
Rock or mineral analyzed whole rock
Analytical details
Lab sample ID 22
Decay constants 4.72E-04, 0.584E-04, 1.19E-04*
K2O concentration 5.04 %
Radiogenic 40Ar concentration 0.95
Radiogenic Ar 59 %