Middle Cryogenian ("Sturtian") Pocatello Formation: Field relations on Oxford Mountain and the Portneuf area, southeast Idaho

GSA Field Guides

Volumn 21, Issue , 2011, Pages 167-182

  Keeley, Joshua A ^a   Link, Paul K ^a  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY ALLOYS; FELDSPAR; LASER ABLATION; LEAD ALLOYS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SANDSTONE; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; URANIUM ALLOYS; ZIRCON;

CRYOGENIAN; LASER ABLATION INDUCTIVELY-COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRIES; METABASALT; NEOPROTEROZOIC; SENSITIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION ION MICROPROBE; U-PB ZIRCON AGES; UPPER SANDSTONES;

VOLCANOES;

EID: 85065264087     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.0021(07)     Document Type: Article

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