Direct dating of the Sete Lagoas cap carbonate (Bambuí Group, Brazil) and implications for the Neoproterozoic glacial events

Terra Nova

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 401-406

  Babinski, Marly ^a   Vieira, Lucieth Cruz ^a   Trindade, Ricardo I F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; LEAD-LEAD DATING; PROTEROZOIC; RADIOMETRIC METHOD;

EID: 36549084690     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2007.00764.x     Document Type: Article

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