High resolution U-Pb dating of Middle Triassic volcaniclastics: Time-scale calibration and verification of tuning parameters for carbonate sedimentation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 141, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 137-151

  Mundil, Roland ^a   Brack, Peter ^a   Meier, Martin ^a   Rieber, Hans ^b   Oberli, Felix ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b PALÄONTOLOGISCHES INSTITUT UND MUSEUM   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anisian; Ladinian; Latemar Massif; Pyroclastics; U Pb

Indexed keywords

ANISIAN/LADINIAN BOUNDARY; CALIBRATION; CARBONATE; PERMIAN/TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; TRIASSIC; URANIUM/LEAD DATING;

EUROPE, ALPS;

EID: 0030442506     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821x(96)00057-x     Document Type: Article

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