Internal structures and U-Pb ages of zircons from a tuff layer in the Meishucunian formation, Yunnan Province, South China

Gondwana Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 148-158

  Sawaki, Yusuke ^a   Nishizawa, Manabu ^a   Suo, Takeshi ^a   Komiya, Tsuyoshi ^a   Hirata, Takafumi ^a   Takahata, Naoto ^b   Sano, Yuji ^b   Han, Jian ^c   Kon, Yoshiaki ^a   Maruyama, Shigenori ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

nano SIMS; Neoproterozoic; Precambrian Cambrian boundary; Tuff; U Pb dating of zircons

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRECAMBRIAN-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY; PROTEROZOIC; TUFF; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

CHINA; YUNNAN;

EID: 46149095088     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2007.12.003     Document Type: Article

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