Age and duration of the Emeishan flood volcanism, SW China: Geochemistry and SHRIMP zircon U-Pb dating of silicic ignimbrites, post-volcanic Xuanwei Formation and clay tuff at the Chaotian section

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 255, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 306-323

  He, Bin ^a   Xu, Yi Gang ^a   Huang, Xiao Long ^a   Luo, Zhen Yu ^a   Shi, Yu Ruo ^b   Yang, Qi Jun ^a   Yu, Song Yue ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

age and duration; clay tuff; Emeishan flood volcanism; end Guadalupian mass extinction; SHRIMP dating; silicic ignimbrite; Xuanwei Formation

Indexed keywords

MASS EXTINCTION; SHRIMP DATING; VOLCANISM;

GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

BASALT;

FLOOD BASALT; IGNEOUS GEOCHEMISTRY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; IGNIMBRITE; MASS EXTINCTION; PERMIAN; SHRIMP DATING; TUFF; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANISM; ZIRCON;

ASIA; CHINA; EMEISHAN; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SICHUAN;

EID: 33847260739     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.12.021     Document Type: Article

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