Stratigraphic position of the ∼1000 Ma Sukhda Tuff (Chhattisgarh Supergroup, India) and the 500 Ma question

Precambrian Research

Volumn 167, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 383-388

  Basu, Abhijit ^a   Patranabis Deb, Sarbani ^b   Schieber, Juergen ^a   Dhang, Pratap C ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Absolute age; Metazoa; Proterozoic stratigraphy; Rodinia; Snowball Earth

Indexed keywords

MAGMATISM; METAZOAN; PROTEROZOIC; RHYOLITE; RODINIA; STRATIGRAPHY; TUFF; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; VINDHYAN BASIN;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 55949122125     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2008.09.004     Document Type: Article

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