Abstract
age measurements on biotites and high-temperature plagioclases of Jurassic basaltic to rhyolitic subvolcanic rocks from the Northern Great Caucasus (USSR) yielded plateau and total argon ages between 190 and 180 Ma. The dated rocks are intrusive sills, dikes and laccoliths in sediments of the middle to upper Pliensbachian and of the lower Toarcian (Lower Jurassic). Pebbles of the volcanic rocks exist in the basal conglomerates of the Aalenian (base of the Middle Jurassic). Thus, their stratigraphic age is restricted to the Lower Jurassic stages of middle to upper Pliensbachian and Toarcian. Because of the scarcity of tie-points in the Lower Jurassic, the isotopic ages of these volcanic rocks, in spite of their rather large stratigraphic range, may serve as new calibration points for the improvement of the Jurassic time-scale.
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