A new U-Pb zircon age dating and palynological data from a Lower Permian section of the southernmost Paraná Basin, Brazil: Biochronostratigraphical and geochronological implications for Gondwanan correlations

Gondwana Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 654-669

  Mori, Ana Luisa Outa ^a   de Souza, Paulo Alves ^a   Marques, Juliana Charão ^a   Lopes, Ricardo da Cunha ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Lower Permian; Palynology; Paran Basin; Radiometrical dating

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856220839     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2011.05.019     Document Type: Article

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