Patterns of sedimentation in the Precambrian

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 176, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 17-42

  Eriksson, Patrick G ^a   Catuneanu, Octavian ^b   Sarkar, Subir ^c   Tirsgaard, Henrik ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d MAERSK OIL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Carbonate; Clastic sediments; Eustasy; Iron formation; Mantle plumes; Oceanic atmospheric evolution on Earth; Plate tectonics; Sedimentary palaeoenvironments

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PRECAMBRIAN; SEDIMENTATION;

EID: 17544363819     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2005.01.003     Document Type: Article

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