Cambrian-Ordovician boundary age and duration of the lowest Ordovician Tremadoc series based on U-Pb zircon dates from Avalonian Wales

Geological Magazine

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 485-494

  Landing, E ^a   Bowring, S A ^b   Davidek, K L ^b   Rushton, A W A ^c,d   Fortey, R A ^c   Wimbledon, W A P ^e  

^a NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^d Countryside Council for Wales ^*  (United Kingdom)

^e BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SANDSTONE; SILICATE MINERALS; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

CAMBRIAN-ORDOVICIAN BOUNDARY; EARLY CAMBRIANS; NORTH WALES; ROAD SECTION; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; U-PB GEOCHRONOLOGY; U-PB ZIRCON; VOLCANICLASTICS;

LEAD ALLOYS;

CAMBRIAN; ORDOVICIAN; TREMADOCIAN; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

BRYN-LLIN-FAWR; GWYNEDD; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0033759869     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756800004507     Document Type: Article

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