No link between the Panjal Traps (Kashmir) and the Late Permian mass extinctions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 19, 2011, Pages

  Shellnutt, J G ^a,b   Bhat, G M ^c   Brookfield, M E ^d   Jahn, B M ^e  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JAMMU   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^e NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LEAD; ZIRCON;

CONTINENTAL FLOOD BASALT; ECOSYSTEM COLLAPSE; END-PERMIAN; FLOOD BASALT; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCES; LASER-ABLATION-ICP-MS; LATE PERMIAN; MASS EXTINCTION; MASS EXTINCTION EVENTS; ZIRCON CRYSTALS;

BASALT;

ABLATION; COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; CORRELATION; FLOOD BASALT; GONDWANA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; LARGE IGNEOUS PROVINCE; MASS EXTINCTION; PERMIAN; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; TETHYS; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM; ZIRCON;

INDIA; JAMMU AND KASHMIR;

EID: 80054752049     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049032     Document Type: Article

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