High-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology of the late triassic chinle formation, Petrififed Forest National Park (Arizona, USA): Temporal constraints on the early evolution of dinosaurs

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 2142-2159

  Ramezani, Jahandar ^a   Hoke, Gregory D ^b   Fastovsky, David E ^c   Bowring, Samuel A ^a   Therrien, François ^d   Dworkin, Steven I ^e   Atchley, Stacy C ^e   Nordt, Lee C ^e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^d ROYAL TYRRELL MUSEUM OF PALAEONTOLOGY   (Canada)

^e BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; ARIZONA , USA; CHANNEL EROSION; COLORADO PLATEAU; FLUVIAL SYSTEMS; FLUVIAL UNITS; HIGH-PRECISION; IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; LATE TRIASSIC; LITHO-STRATIGRAPHIC; NATIONAL PARKS; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEDIMENT REMOVAL; SILTSTONES; TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS; TRIASSIC; U-PB ZIRCON; UPPER TRIASSIC; VERTEBRATE EVOLUTION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONTROL; FLEXIBLE COUPLINGS; FORESTRY; ISOTOPES; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PARKS; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; DINOSAUR; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; TRIASSIC; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

ANIMALS; ARIZONA; FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; LEAD; MASS SPECTROMETERS; SAND STONE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENTATION; SILT;

ARIZONA; PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

DINOSAURIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80054732139     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30433.1     Document Type: Article

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