A methane fuse for the Cambrian explosion: Carbon cycles and true polar wander

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 335, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-78

  Kirschvink, Joseph L ^a,b   Raub, Timothy D ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cambrian; Clathrate; Evolution; Methane; Neoproterozoic; Paleomagnetism; True polar wander

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CARBON CYCLE; CLATHRATE; METHANE; PALEOMAGNETISM; POLAR WANDERING; PROTEROZOIC; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0037221746     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1631-0713(03)00011-7     Document Type: Article

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