Application of the authigenic 10Be/9Be dating method to continental sediments: Reconstruction of the Mio-Pleistocene sedimentary sequence in the early hominid fossiliferous areas of the northern Chad Basin

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 297, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 57-70

  Lebatard, Anne Elisabeth ^a,b   Bourlès, Didier L ^b   Braucher, Re gis ^b   Arnold, Maurice ^b   Duringer, Philippe ^c   Jolivet, Marc ^d   Moussa, Abderamane ^c   Deschamps, Pierre ^b   Roquin, Claude ^c   Carcaillet, Julien ^e   Schuster, Mathieu ^a   Lihoreau, Fabrice ^f   Likius, Andossa ^g   Mackaye, Hassan Taisso ^g   Vignaud, Patrick ^a   Brunet, Michel ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG EOST   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^e UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^f UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^g Universite de N'djamena   (Chad)

^h Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie   (France)

Author keywords

Beryllium 10; Chad Basin; Cosmogenic nuclide; Hominidae; Paleoenvironments; Paleontology

Indexed keywords

CHAD BASIN; COSMOGENIC NUCLIDES; HOMINIDAE; PALEOENVIRONMENTS; PALEONTOLOGY;

BERYLLIUM; CLIMATOLOGY; DEPOSITS; ISOTOPES; LEACHING; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

AGE DETERMINATION; BERYLLIUM ISOTOPE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FACIES; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HOMINID; MIOCENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; RECONSTRUCTION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SHELF SEDIMENT;

CHAD BASIN;

HOMINIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77956010520     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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