A negative fold test on the Lorrain formation of the Huronian supergroup: Uncertainty on the paleolatitude of the Paleoproterozoic Gowganda glaciation and implications for the great oxygenation event

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 232, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 315-332

  Hilburn, Isaac A ^a   Kirschvink, Joseph L ^a   Tajika, Eiichi ^b   Tada, Ryuji ^b   Hamano, Yozo ^b   Yamamoto, Shinji ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apparent polar wander; Huronian Supergroup; Paleomagnetism; Paleoproterozoic climate; Paleoproterozoic glaciations; Snowball Earth; Superior Province; The great oxygenation event

Indexed keywords

CONGLOMERATION; GLACIATION; LORRAIN FORMATION; OXYGENATION; PALEOLATITUTES;

CONSTRAINT THEORY; GLACIERS; MAGNETIZATION; OXIDATION; RADIOMETRY; ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE;

APPARENT POLAR WANDER PATH; GONDWANA; PALEOMAGNETISM; PROTEROZOIC;

EID: 17044430954     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.11.025     Document Type: Article

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