U-Pb age of zircon crystals from the upper banner tonstein (Middle Pennsylvanian), Virginia: Absolute age of the Lower Pennsylvanian-Middle Pennsylvanian boundary and depositional rates for the Middle Pennsylvanian, central appalachian basin

Prace - Panstwowego Instytutu Geologicznego

Volumn 157, Issue , 1997, Pages 154-166

  Lyons, P C ^a   Krogh, T E ^b   Kwok, Y Y ^b   Zodrow, E L ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^c CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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