Chapter 9: A user's guide to Neoproterozoic geochronology

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 135-149

  Condon, Daniel J ^a   Bowring, Samuel A ^b  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; GEOCHRONOLOGY; MINERAL; PROTEROZOIC; RADIONUCLIDE; ROCK; STRATIGRAPHY;

EID: 84864032079     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/M36.9     Document Type: Article

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