Rapid eruption of Siberian flood-volcanic rocks and evidence for coincidence with the Permian^Triassic boundary and mass extinction at 251Ma
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2003
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Kamo, Sandra L
Czamanske, Gerald K
Amelin, Yuri
Fedorenko, Valeri A.
Davis, D W
Trofmov, V.R.
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The Siberian flood-volcanic event is the most voluminous and explosive, continental, volcanic event known in the Phanerozoic record. U-Pb perovskite and zircon ages were obtained for lavas of the lowermost unit (251.7±0.4 Ma) and near-uppermost unit (251
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Keywords: flood basalt; geochronology; large igneous province; mass extinction; Permian-Triassic boundary; stratigraphic correlation; Russian Federation Permo-Triassic boundary; Perovskite; Siberian flood volcanism; U-Pb ages; Zircon
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Earth and Planetary Science Letters
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