Age of the Jamaican Granodiorite
- 1 October 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Geological Magazine
- Vol. 100 (6) , 524-532
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800059070
Abstract
Granodiorite intrusions in Jamaica were assigned by early workers to various ages from Pre-Cambrian to late Tertiary. Recent surveys have shown that the granodiorite intrudes Maestrichtian sediments and has provided material for pebbles in an Eocene conglomerate. Its age is therefore very late Cretaceous or very early Tertiary. Radio-metric determinations using Potassium/Argon; Rubidium/Strontium and isotopic lead methods suggest an age of 65 ± 5 million years.Keywords
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