New age constraints for the Ordovician Tyrone Volcanic Group, Northern Ireland

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 333-339

  Cooper, Mark R ^a   Crowley, Q G ^b   Rushton, A W A ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORTHERN IRELAND   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; IONIZATION; ISLAND ARC; MASS SPECTROMETRY; ORDOVICIAN; RHYOLITE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

EURASIA; EUROPE; MIDLAND VALLEY; NORTHERN IRELAND; SCOTLAND; TYRONE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ISOGRAPTUS VICTORIAE;

EID: 38949203732     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492007-057     Document Type: Article

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