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THIS communication is a report of the age measurement project carried out on rocks from the Sör-Rondane Mountains (Queen Maud Land, 23° E. to 28° E.). The rocks were sampled by Picciotto1,2 during the 1958 Belgian Antarctic Expedition led by Gaston de Gerlache1. A first set of results has already been published3. The biotite strontium/rubidium ages of various eruptive and metamorphic rocks ranged from 460 to 500 million years.
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PASTEELS, P., DEUTSCH, S. Age Measurements of Antarctic Rocks (Queen Maud Land). Nature 199, 996–997 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199996a0
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