The onset of flood basalt volcanism, Northern Paraná Basin, Brazil: A precise U-Pb baddeleyite/zircon age for a Chapecó-type dacite

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 302, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 147-153

  Janasi, Valdecir de Assis ^a   de Freitas, Vivian Azor ^a   Heaman, Larry H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basalt; Dacite; Large Igneous Province; Paran Etendeka Province; U Pb dating

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT ROCKS; DACITE; FLOOD BASALT VOLCANISM; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; TIME SPAN; U-PB DATING;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LEAD; STRATIGRAPHY;

BASALT;

ARGON-ARGON DATING; BASEMENT ROCK; DACITE; FELSIC ROCK; FLOOD BASALT; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; STRATIGRAPHY; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANISM;

PARANA BASIN;

EUGENIA UNIFLORA;

EID: 78751569677     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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