New U-Pb zircon ages of the Sandbian (Upper Ordovician) "Big K-bentonite" in Baltoscandia (Estonia and Sweden) by LA-ICPMS

• Oscillatory-zoned euhedral single zircons from the upper Sandbian (Upper Ordovician) Kinnekulle K-bentonite exposed in a hillock at Paaskula in Estonia and at the type locality on Mt Kinnekulle in Sweden were dated in a grain-by-grain manner by laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer. The U-Pb (weighed mean) ages of the 25 grains from Mt Kinnekulle and 24 grains from Paaskula are 453.4 +/- 6.6 and 454.9 +/- 4.9Ma, respectively. This study provides the first ca. 454Ma (late Sandbian) age for the Ordovician K-bentonite in northern Estonia and confirmed its correlation with the type Kinnekulle bed across the Baltic Sea.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Geologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Geology (hsv//eng)

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