Timing of the Permian-Triassic biotic crisis: Implications from new zircon U/Pb age data (and their limitations)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 187, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 131-145

  Mundil, Roland ^a   Metcalfe, Ian ^b   Ludwig, Kenneth R ^a   Renne, Paul R ^a,e   Oberli, Felix ^c   Nicoll, Robert S ^d  

^a BERKELEY GEOCHRONOLOGY CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mass extinctions; Permian Triassic boundary; U Pb; Zircon

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MASS EXTINCTION; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; URANIUM SERIES DATING; ZIRCON;

EID: 0034998757     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00274-6     Document Type: Article

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