Preliminary dating of the Viluy traps (Eastern Siberia) : eruption at the time of Late Denovian extinction events ?

• Main Authors: Courtillot, V., Kravchinsky, V.A., Quidelleur, X., Renne, P.R, Gladkochub, D.P.
• Other Authors: Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université de La Réunion (UR)-Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPG Paris)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Sciences de la Terre, de l'Environnement et des Planètes (STEP), Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7), Department of Physics Edmonton, University of Alberta, Interactions et dynamique des environnements de surface (IDES), Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Earth and Planetary Science UC Berkeley (EPS), University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Berkeley Geochronology Center (BGC), Melnikov Permafrost Institut, Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow (RAS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2010
• Subjects: [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Renne; renne; Siberia
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-00545487

International audience In this short note, we report new age determinations from four samples of the Middle-Paleozoic Viluy Traps in Siberia, east of the more famous Permo-Triassic Siberian Traps. These samples, which were collected from three drill cores, have been analyzed in parallel and independ...