An appraisal of the ages of Phanerozoic large igneous provinces

Q Jiang, F Jourdan, HKH Olierook, RE Merle - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Large igneous provinces (LIPs) are the products of exceptional magmatic events that played
important roles in tectonic plate reorganizations, environmental crises, energy resource …

High-precision U-Pb zircon geochronology and the stratigraphic record

SA Bowring, MD Schmitz - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2003 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The rock stratigraphic record exists as a rich, albeit complex and incomplete repository of
Earth history, tracing the processes of biological evolution, climate change, oceanic and …

Joint determination of 40K decay constants and 40Ar∗/40K for the Fish Canyon sanidine standard, and improved accuracy for 40Ar/39Ar geochronology

PR Renne, R Mundil, G Balco, K Min… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2010 - Elsevier
40Ar/39Ar and K–Ar geochronology have long suffered from large systematic errors arising
from imprecise K and Ar isotopic data for standards and imprecisely determined decay …

Calibrating the zenith of dinosaur diversity in the Campanian of the Western Interior Basin by CA-ID-TIMS U–Pb geochronology

J Ramezani, TL Beveridge, RR Rogers, DA Eberth… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The spectacular fossil fauna and flora preserved in the Upper Cretaceous terrestrial strata of
North America's Western Interior Basin record an exceptional peak in the diversification of …

The timing and extent of the eruption of the Siberian Traps large igneous province: Implications for the end-Permian environmental crisis

MK Reichow, MS Pringle, AI Al'Mukhamedov… - Earth and Planetary …, 2009 - Elsevier
We present new high-precision 40Ar/39Ar ages on feldspar and biotite separates to
establish the age, duration and extent of the larger Siberian Traps volcanic province …

Reassessing the uranium decay constants for geochronology using ID-TIMS U–Pb data

B Schoene, JL Crowley, DJ Condon… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2006 - Elsevier
As the internal precision of radiometric dates approaches the 0.1% level, systematic biases
between different methods have become apparent. Many workers have suggested that …

U–Pb systematics of the McClure Mountain syenite: thermochronological constraints on the age of the 40Ar/39Ar standard MMhb

B Schoene, SA Bowring - Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 2006 - Springer
Recent advances in U–Pb geochronology allow unprecedented levels of precision in the
determination of geological ages. However, increased precision has also illuminated the …

Late Ordovician climate change and extinctions driven by elevated volcanic nutrient supply

J Longman, BJW Mills, HR Manners, TM Gernon… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Late Ordovician (~ 459–444 million years ago) was characterized by global
cooling, glaciation and severe mass extinction. These events may have been driven by …

40Ar/39Ar Dates from the West Siberian Basin: Siberian Flood Basalt Province Doubled

MK Reichow, AD Saunders, RV White, MS Pringle… - Science, 2002 - science.org
Widespread basaltic volcanism occurred in the region of the West Siberian Basin in central
Russia during Permo-Triassic times. New 40Ar/39Ar age determinations on plagioclase …

The Tornquist Sea and Baltica–Avalonia docking

TH Torsvik, EF Rehnström - Tectonophysics, 2003 - Elsevier
Early Ordovician (Late Arenig) limestones from the SW margin of Baltica (Scania–Bornholm)
have multicomponent magnetic signatures, but high unblocking components predating …