Glendonites in Neoproterozoic low-latitude, interglacial sedimentary rocks, northwest Canada: Insights into the Cryogenian ocean and Precambrian cold-water carbonates

Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 9-12

  James, Noel P ^a   Narbonne, Guy M ^a   Dalrymple, Robert W ^a   Kyser, T Kurtis ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glendonite; Limestone; Mackenzie Mountains; Neoproterozoic; Snowball earth

Indexed keywords

GLENDONITES; PISOLITES; PSEUDOMORPHS; STELLATE CRYSTALS;

CARBONATES; CRYSTALS; FREEZING; GAS HYDRATES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STORMS;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

EARLY EARTH; GLENDONITE; IKAITE; INTERGLACIAL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOCLIMATE; PROTEROZOIC; REPLACEMENT; SEDIMENTARY ROCK;

CANADA; MACKENZIE MOUNTAINS; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 12844266153     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20938.1     Document Type: Article

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