Rapid eruption of Siberian flood-volcanic rocks and evidence for coincidence with the Permian-Triassic boundary and mass extinction at 251 Ma

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 214, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 75-91

  Kamo, Sandra L ^a   Czamanske, Gerald K ^b   Amelin, Yuri ^a   Fedorenko, Valeri A ^c   Davis, D W ^a   Trofimov, V R ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^b CtrlResInstGeol Prospecting Base ^*  (United States)

^c CtrlResInstGeol Prospecting Base   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Permo Triassic boundary; Perovskite; Siberian flood volcanism; U Pb ages; Zircon

Indexed keywords

FLOOD BASALT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; MASS EXTINCTION; PERMIAN-TRIASSIC BOUNDARY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

EID: 0141707140     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00347-9     Document Type: Article

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