Age and significance of the Platypus Tuff Bed, a regional reference horizon in the Upper Permian Moranbah Coal Measures, north Bowen Basin

Michaelsen, PHenderson, RobertCrosdale, PFanning, Christopher2015-12-130812-0099http://hdl.handle.net/1885/90800The Platypus Tuff Bed in the Permian Moranbah Coal Measures provides a basin-wide marker horizon traceable for over 300 km along strike. The bed is a tephra event unit, the product of a large-scale volcanic eruptive episode involving a pyroclastic volumeKeywords: geochronology; Permian; tuff; uranium series dating; Australia Bowen Basin; Geochronology; Moranbah coal measures; Permian; Platypus tuff bed; Uranium-lead datingAge and significance of the Platypus Tuff Bed, a regional reference horizon in the Upper Permian Moranbah Coal Measures, north Bowen Basin200110.1046/j.1440-0952.2001.00854.x2015-12-12