Detrital zircon U-Pb ages of sandstones in continental red beds at Valle de Huizachal, Tamaulipas, NE Mexico: Record of Early-Middle Jurassic arc volcanism and transition to crustal extension

Geosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 159-170

  Rubio Cisneros, Igor Ishi ^a   Lawton, Timothy F ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN   (Mexico)

^b NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; JURASSIC; RED BED; SANDSTONE; SILICICLASTIC DEPOSIT; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; VOLCANIC ROCK; VOLCANISM;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; TAMAULIPAS;

CELTIS PALLIDA; GUACAMAYA;

EID: 79952799771     PISSN: 1553-040     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES00567.1     Document Type: Article

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