A search for shocked quartz at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary in the Fundy and Newark basins of the Newark Supergroup

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 101-109

  Mossman, David J ^a   Grantham, Robert G ^b   Langenhorst, Falko ^c,d  

^a MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History   (Canada)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÄT BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEWARK SUPERGROUP; PANGEA; RIFT BASIN; SHOCKED QUARTZ; TRIASSIC-JURASSIC BOUNDARY;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0031684768     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e97-101     Document Type: Article

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