Integrated chronostratigraphy of Proterozoic-Cambrian boundary beds in the western Anabar region, northern Siberia

Geological Magazine

Volumn 133, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 509-533

  Kaufman, Alan J ^a   Knoll, Andrew H ^a   Semikhatov, Mikhail A ^b   Grotzinger, John P ^c   Jacobsen, Stein B ^a   Adams, William ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; STRONTIUM;

CARBON; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PRECAMBRIAN/CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRONTIUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; INVERTEBRATE; MICROBIOLOGY; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; PALEONTOLOGY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEDIMENT;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INVERTEBRATES; PALEONTOLOGY; SIBERIA; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION, SIBERIA, ANABAR;

EID: 0030450112     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0016756800007810     Document Type: Article

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