(ArAr)-Ar-40-Ar-/39 ages of alkali feldspar xenocrysts constrain the timing of intraplate basaltic volcanism

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This work was supported by ARC grant DP130100517. William (Bill) Birch and Dermot Henry from the Melbourne Museum are thanked for providing access to the Museum Victoria mineral collection and supplying the majority of the feldspar megacrysts used in this study. Graham Hutchinson is acknowledged for undertaking the electron microprobe analyses, Stan Szczepanski for technical assistance in the Noble Gas Geochronology Laboratory, and Korien Oostingh and Fred Jourdan (Curtin University) for discussion on Mount Shadwell and Mount Leura basalt ages. The manuscript has benefitted from thoughtful reviews by Brian Jicha, an anonymous reviewer and the editor, Sebastien Nomade.