Late proterozoic and paleozoic tides, retreat of the moon, and rotation of the earth

Science

Volumn 273, Issue 5271, 1996, Pages 100-104

  Sonett, C P ^a   Kvale, E P ^b   Zakharian, A ^a   Chan, Marjorie A ^c   Demko, T M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; AUSTRALIA; CHRONOLOGY; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTHM; SUN; SUNLIGHT; TIME; UNITED STATES;

POPULUS;

DAY LENGTH; EARTH ROTATION; LUNAR ORBIT; PALAEOZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; TIDAL RHYTHMITE;

EID: 0029663562     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.273.5271.100     Document Type: Article

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33. In memoriam S. K. Runcorn. Supported in part by the NASA Innovative Research Program (to C.P.S.), the NSF Atmospheres program (to G. E. Williams and C.P.S.) for the Elatina data reduction, and NSF grant EAR-9315937 (to MAC. and E.P.K.) for the BCC data. We thank H. R. Johnson and A. Zawostoski for technical support.