U-Pb zircon age constraints on late Neoproterozoic glaciation in Tasmania

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 893-896

  Calver, Clive R ^a   Black, Lance P ^b,c   Everard, John L ^a   Seymour, David B ^a  

^a Mineral Resources Tasmania   (Australia)

^b Minerals Division   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age determination; Australia; Geochronology; Glaciation; Neoproterozoic; SHRIMP data

Indexed keywords

NEOPROTEROZOIC GLACIATION; TASMANIA;

CARBONATES; LANDFORMS; LEAD; STRATIGRAPHY; URANIUM; ZIRCON;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; GLACIATION; PROTEROZOIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; TASMANIA; WORLD;

EID: 7444268936     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20713.1     Document Type: Article

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