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https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1-2019
Research article
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08 Jan 2019
Research article |  | 08 Jan 2019

High-precision U–Pb ages in the early Tithonian to early Berriasian and implications for the numerical age of the Jurassic–Cretaceous boundary

Luis Lena, Rafael López-Martínez, Marina Lescano, Beatriz Aguire-Urreta, Andrea Concheyro, Verónica Vennari, Maximiliano Naipauer, Elias Samankassou, Márcio Pimentel, Victor A. Ramos, and Urs Schaltegger

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This paper investigates the numerical age of the J–K boundary that remains one of the last main Phanerozoic system boundaries without an adequate constraint by adequate radioisotopic ages. Here we find that there is potentially 4 Myr of difference between the current age of the J–K boundary and our data.