Testing the limits of Paleozoic chronostratigraphic correlation via high-resolution (<500 k.y.) integrated conodont, graptolite, and carbon isotope (δ13Ccarb) biochemostratigraphy across the llandovery-Wenlock (Silurian) boundary: Is a unified Phanerozoic time scale achievable?

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 1700-1716

  Cramer, Bradley D ^a,j   Loydell, David K ^b   Samtleben, Christian ^c   Munnecke, Axel ^d   Kaljo, Dimitri ^e   Männik, Peep ^e   Martma, Tõnu ^e   Jeppsson, Lennart ^f   Kleffner, Mark A ^a   Barrick, James E ^g   Johnson, Craig A ^h   Emsbo, Poul ^h   Joachimski, Michael M ^d   Bickert, Torsten ⁱ   Saltzman, Matthew R ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^e TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^f LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPES; CENOZOIC; DATA SERIES; DIRECT FUNCTIONS; ERROR BARS; HIGH RESOLUTION; ISOTOPIC FEATURE; MESOZOIC; PALEOCONTINENTS; PALEOZOIC; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; TIME SLICE; TIME-PERIODS; TIME-SCALES;

DATA STRUCTURES; ISOTOPES; STRATIGRAPHY;

TIME MEASUREMENT;

AVALONIA; BALTICA; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CENOZOIC; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONODONT; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; GRAPTOLITE; LAURENTIA; LLANDOVERIAN; MESOZOIC; PALEOZOIC; PRECISION; SILURIAN; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TIMESCALE; WENLOCKIAN;

EID: 77956906833     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26602.1     Document Type: Article

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