Estimating duration and intensity of neoproterozoic snowball glaciation from Ir anomalies

Science

Volumn 308, Issue 5719, 2005, Pages 239-242

  Bodiselitsch, Bernd ^a   Koeberl, Christian ^a   Master, Sharad ^b   Reimold, Wolf U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; EARTH (PLANET); GLACIERS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ICE; IRIDIUM COMPOUNDS; MELTING; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY);

CAP CARBONATES; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATERIALS; NEOPROTEROZOIC GLACIATIONS; SUPERGREENHOUSE ENVIRONMENT;

SNOW;

CARBON 13; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CERIUM; CHROMIUM; COBALT; EUROPIUM; GOLD; HAFNIUM; ICE; IRIDIUM; IRON; SCANDIUM; TANTALUM; THORIUM;

GLACIATION; IRIDIUM; PALEOCLIMATE; PROTEROZOIC;

ARTICLE; CONGO; GEOLOGY; GLACIER; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LUMINANCE; MARINOAN; MELTING POINT; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTATION; STURTIAN; VOLCANO; WEATHERING; X RAY FLUORESCENCE; ZAMBIA;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; CONGO; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD;

EID: 17644376163     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1104657     Document Type: Article

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