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THIS note reports measurements made in an attempt to determine: (1) the possible effect of xenoliths on whole-rock basalt age determinations; (2) whether or not potassium-argon age determinations on xenoliths in basalt might approximate the age of the basalt flow. The field location is in the canyon of Sawmill Creek, Inyo County, sec. 7 md 18, T. 12 S., R. 34 E., and sec. 12 and 13, T. 12 S., R. 33 E.
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DALRYMPLE, G. Argon Retention in a Granitic Xenolith from a Pleistocene Basalt, Sierra Nevada, California. Nature 201, 282 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/201282a0
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