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

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2001

Authors

Michaelsen, P
Henderson, Robert
Crosdale, P
Fanning, Christopher

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

The 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 volume

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Keywords: geochronology; Permian; tuff; uranium series dating; Australia Bowen Basin; Geochronology; Moranbah coal measures; Permian; Platypus tuff bed; Uranium-lead dating

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/90800

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Open Access Research

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Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

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Journal article

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DOI

10.1046/j.1440-0952.2001.00854.x

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2037-12-31

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