U-Pb dating of silicic lavas, sills and syneruptive resedimented volcaniclastic deposits of the Lower Devonian Crudine Group, Hill End Trough, New South Wales

Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 749-764

  Jagodzinski, E A ^a   Black, L P ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Devonian; Geochronology; Hill End Trough; Merrions Formation; New South Wales; Turondale Formation

Indexed keywords

DEVONIAN; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033377192     PISSN: 08120099     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-0952.1999.00743.x     Document Type: Article

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