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dc.contributor.authorCohen, Benjamin E.
dc.contributor.authorMark, Darren F.
dc.contributor.authorLee, Martin R.
dc.contributor.authorSimpson, Sarah L.
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-16T15:30:10Z
dc.date.available2017-05-16T15:30:10Z
dc.date.issued2017-08-02
dc.identifier.citationCohen , B E , Mark , D F , Lee , M R & Simpson , S L 2017 , ' A new high-precision 40 Ar/ 39 Ar age for the Rochechouart impact structure : at least 5 Ma older than the Triassic–Jurassic boundary ' , Meteoritics & Planetary Science , vol. 52 , no. 8 , pp. 1600-1611 . https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.12880en
dc.identifier.issn1086-9379
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 250006964
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 1b10d287-aaaf-4d6d-868d-b9d28d7f15b1
dc.identifier.otherBibtex: urn:82b33301814b39f265e896978ca899d8
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85019638099
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000406869300005
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/10787
dc.descriptionCohen was supported by STFC grant ST/N000846/1. The funds for 40Ar/39Ar dating were supplied by the SUERC Argon Isotope Facility. NERC are thanked for the continued funding of the Argon Isotope Facility.en
dc.description.abstractThe Rochechourt impact structure in south-central France, with maximum diameter of 40–50 km, has previously been dated to within 1% uncertainty of the Triassic–Jurassic boundary, at which time ~30% of global genera became extinct. To evaluate the temporal relationship between the impact and the Triassic–Jurassic boundary at high precision, we have re-examined the structure's age using multicollector ARGUS-V 40Ar/39Ar mass spectrometry. Results from four aliquots of impact melt are highly reproducible, and yield an age of 206.92 ± 0.20/0.32 Ma (2σ, full analytical/external uncertainties). Thus, the Rochechouart impact structure predates the Triassic–Jurassic boundary by 5.6 ± 0.4 Ma and so is not temporally linked to the mass extinction. Rochechouart has formerly been proposed to be part of a multiple impact event, but when compared with new ages from the other purported “paired” structures, the results provide no evidence for synchronous impacts in the Late Triassic. The widespread Central Atlantic Magmatic Province flood basalts remain the most likely cause of the Triassic–Jurassic mass extinction.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofMeteoritics & Planetary Scienceen
dc.rights© 2017 The Authors. Meteoritics & Planetary Science published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of The Meteoritical Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.subjectGE Environmental Sciencesen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccGEen
dc.titleA new high-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for the Rochechouart impact structure : at least 5 Ma older than the Triassic–Jurassic boundaryen
dc.typeJournal articleen
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dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Geography and Geosciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Earth and Environmental Sciencesen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/maps.12880
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.12880/full#footer-support-infoen


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