“…The purpose of this study was to investigate Ar isotope systematics of garnet and fluid inclusions in garnet, with the specific aim of studying excess 40 Ar by the 40 Ar/ 39 Ar crushing technique given that age scatter attributed to excess 40 Ar is ubiquitous in the (U)HP metamorphic rocks of Dabieshan , the Seward Peninsula of Alaska (Hannula and McWilliams, 1995), the western Alps (Scaillet et al, 1992;Arnaud and Kelley, 1995;Ruffet et al, 1995Ruffet et al, , 1997Scaillet, 1996), the Holsnoy Island of western Norway (Boundy et al, 1997), the Pakistan Himalaya (Tonarini et al, 1993), and the Tavsanli Zone of NW Turkey (Sherlock and Arnaud, 1999;Sherlock and Kelley, 2002).…”