New Lu-Hf and Pb-Pb age constraints on the earliest animal fossils

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 201, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 203-212

  Barfod, Gry H ^a,b   Albarède, Francis ^c   Knoll, Andrew H ^d   Xiao, Shuhai ^e   Télouk, Philippe ^c   Frei, Robert ^a,b   Baker, Joel ^a  

^a DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

Absolute age; Biologic evolution; Doushantuo Formation; Geochronology; Guizhou China; Lu Hf system; Neoproterozoic; Pb Pb; Phosphate rocks; Sinian

Indexed keywords

HAFNIUM; LEAD-LEAD DATING; LUTETIUM; METAZOAN; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PHOSPHORITE; PROTEROZOIC;

CHINA;

EID: 0036328836     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(02)00687-8     Document Type: Article

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