The Vendian-Cambrian δ13C record, North Iran: Evidence for overturning of the ocean before the Cambrian Explosion

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 147, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages

  Kimura, Hiroto ^a   Matsumoto, Ryo ^a   Kakuwa, Yoshitaka ^a   Hamdi, Bahaeddin ^b   Zibaseresht, Hamid ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF IRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

C 13 C 12; Iran; Lower cambrian; Paleo oceanography; Trace elements; Upper precambrian

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON PRODUCTIVITY; UPWELLING; VENDIAN;

IRAN, ELBURZ MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0030774579     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-821x(97)00014-9     Document Type: Article

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