Detrital zircon dating and tracing the provenance of dinosaur bone beds from the Late Cretaceous Wangshi Group in Zhucheng, Shandong, East China

The mass burial of dinosaur bone fossils in the Late Cretaceous Wangshi Group in Zhucheng, Shandong Province has been a research focus in recent years. However, the provenance of the dinosaur bone fossils and the accurate depositional age of the bone beds remain ambiguous. Through U–Pb dating of det...

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Main Authors: Wei An, Hong-Wei Kuang, Yong-Qing Liu, Nan Peng, Ke-Min Xu, Huan Xu, Peng Zhang, Ke-Bai Wang, Shu-Qing Chen, Yan-Xia Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2016-01-01
Series:Journal of Palaeogeography
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095383615300547