SHRIMP zircon U-Pb dating from K-bentonite in the top of ordovician of wangjiawan section, yichang, hubei, China

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 493-498

  Hu, YanHua ^a,d   Zhou, JiBin ^a   Song, Biao ^b   Li, Wei ^a   Sun, WeiDong ^a,c  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Bentonite; Hirnantian; Ordovician Silurian boundary; SHRIMP; Zircon

Indexed keywords

BENTONITE; MINERALOGY; PROBES; STRATIGRAPHY; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

GEOCHRONOLOGY DATA; ISOTOPIC AGE; SENSITIVE HIGH RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE (SHRIMP);

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BENTONITE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ORDOVICIAN-SILURIAN BOUNDARY; SHRIMP DATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUBEI; YICHANG;

EID: 41549086074     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-008-0028-1     Document Type: Article

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