Comings and goings of global glaciations on a Neoproterozoic tropical platform in Namibia

GSA Today

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1-9

  Hoffman, Paul F ^a   Kaufman, Alan J ^b   Halverson, Galen P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; DIAMICTITE; GLACIATION; PALAEOCLIMATE; PROTEROZOIC;

NAMIBIA;

EID: 0031693984     PISSN: 10525173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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