Extinction of Cloudina and Namacalathus at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary in Oman

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 431-434

  Amthor, Joachim E ^a   Grotzinger, John P ^b   Schröder, Stefan ^b   Bowring, Samuel A ^b   Ramezani, Jahandar ^b   Martin, Mark W ^b   Matter, Albert ^c  

^a PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN   (Oman)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cambrian; Carbon isotopes; Extinction; Geochronology; Oman; Proterozoic; U Pb

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY;

CARBON; COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEMS; ISOTOPES; STRATIGRAPHY;

SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; EXTINCTION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAZOAN; PRECAMBRIAN-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY;

OMAN;

EID: 0038321368     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0431:EOCANA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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