Integrated Ediacaran chronostratigraphy, Wernecke Mountains, northwestern Canada

Precambrian Research

Volumn 132, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 1-27

  Pyle, Leanne J ^a   Narbonne, Guy M ^a   James, Noel P ^a   Dalrymple, Robert W ^a   Kaufman, Alan J ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemostratigraphy; Chronostratigraphy; Ediacaran; Sequence stratigraphy; Terminal Neoproterozoic; Wernecke Mountains

Indexed keywords

CARBONIC ACID; WATER;

CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; EDIACARAN; PROTEROZOIC; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CHRONOLOGY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; LAND BIOME; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRECAMBRIAN; SEDIMENTATION; STONE FORMATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WERNECKE MOUNTAINS; YUKON TERRITORY;

EID: 2442455277     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2004.01.004     Document Type: Article

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