A U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar time scale for the Jurassic

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 923-944

  Palfy J ^a,b   Smith, P L ^a   Mortensen, J K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGON-ARGON DATING; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; DATING METHOD; JURASSIC; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

EID: 0033843539     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/e00-002     Document Type: Article

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