Paleoproterozoic snowball Earth: Extreme climatic and geochemical global change and its biological consequences

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1400-1405

  Kirschvink, Joseph L ^a   Gaidos, Eric J ^b   Bertani, L Elizabeth ^c   Beukes, Nicholas J ^d   Gutzmer, Jens ^d   Maepa, Linda N ^a   Steinberger, Rachel E ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; IRON; MANGANESE; MANGANESE SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; OXYGEN; OXYGEN RADICAL; SNOW;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CYANOBACTERIUM; GEOLOGY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HISTORY; MELTING POINT; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; OXIDATION; PHOTOSYSTEM II; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SEA;

AFRICA; BACTERIA; CLIMATE; CYANOBACTERIA; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; ICE; IRON; MANGANESE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXYGEN; PHYLOGENY; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE; TIME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 0034652363     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.4.1400     Document Type: Article

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