Sm-Nd isotopic age of Precambrian-Cambrian boundary in China

Geological Magazine

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-61

  Yang, Jie Dong ^a   Sun, Wei Guo ^b   Wang, Zong Zhe ^b   Wang, Yin Xi ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOPHANITE; PHOSPHATE; PRECAMBRIAN/CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY; SAMARIUM/NEODYMIUM DATING;

CHINA, SICHUAN; CHINA, XINJIANG; CHINA, YUNNAN, MEISHUCUN;

EID: 0029772133     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s001675680000724x     Document Type: Article

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