Soft-sediment deformation at the base of the Neoproterozoic Puga cap carbonate (southwestern Amazon craton, Brazil): Confirmation of rapid icehouse to greenhouse transition in snowball Earth

Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 613-616

  Rodrigues Nogueira, Afonso César ^a,b   Riccomini, Claudio ^b   Nóbrega Sial, Alcides ^c   Veloso Moura, Candido Augusto ^d   Fairchild, Thomas Rich ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon craton; Carbonate rocks; Deformation; Glaciation; Isotopes; Neoproterozoic

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC DATA;

CARBONATES; DEFORMATION; SEDIMENTS; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; STRATIGRAPHY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONATE ROCK; DEEP WATER; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GLACIATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PALEOCLIMATE; POSTGLACIAL REBOUND;

BRAZIL;

EID: 0042703516     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0613:SDATBO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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