A Vendian-Cambrian boundary succession from the northwestern margin of the Siberian Platform: Stratigraphy, palaeontology, chemostratigraphy and correlation

Geological Magazine

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 473-494

  Bartley, Julie K ^a,d   Pope, Michael ^b   Knoll, Andrew H ^a   Semikhatov, Mikhail A ^c   Petrov, Peter Yu ^c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

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CARBON; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; PALEONTOLOGY; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEDIMENT;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

CARBON ISOTOPES; CARBONATES; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; METEOROIDS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PALEONTOLOGY; SIBERIA;

EID: 0032105813     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756898008772     Document Type: Article

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