Carbon and oxygen isotope profiles from the terminal precambrian Marwar Supergroup, Rajasthan, India

Carbonates and Evaporites

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 10-18

  Maheshwari, Anil ^a   Sial, A N ^b   Mathur, S C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN   (India)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^c JAI NARAIN VYAS UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PROTEROZOIC;

INDIA; RAJASTHAN;

EID: 0037824707     PISSN: 08912556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03178383     Document Type: Article

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