Using the U-Pb system of calcretes to date the time of sedimentation of clastic sedimentary rocks

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 62, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 2823-2835

  Wang, Z S ^a   Rasbury, E T ^a   Hanson, G N ^a   Meyers, W J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCRETE; CLASTIC ROCK; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SEDIMENTATION; TRIASSIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032466559     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(98)00201-4     Document Type: Article

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