Toward a Neoproterozoic composite carbon-isotope record

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 9-10, 2005, Pages 1181-1207

  Halverson, Galen P ^a,b,c   Hoffman, Paul F ^a   Schrag, Daniel P ^a   Maloof, Adam C ^a,b   Rice, A Hugh N ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Carbon isotope; Chemostratigraphy; Geochronology; Glaciation; Neoproterozoic

Indexed keywords

CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; COMPOSITE CARBON-ISOTOPE; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; GLACIATION; NEOPROTEROZOIC;

CARBON; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; RADIOMETRY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; GLACIATION; PROTEROZOIC; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

EID: 24644512892     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25630.1     Document Type: Review

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