The relationship between the Neoproterozoic Noonday Dolomite and the Ibex Formation: New observations and their bearing on 'snowball Earth'

Earth-Science Reviews

Volumn 73, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 63-78

  Corsetti, Frank A ^a   Kaufman, Alan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Death Valley; Glaciation; Ibex Formation; Neoproterozoic; Noonday Dolomite

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DOLOMITE; EARLY EARTH; PALEOCLIMATE; PROTEROZOIC;

CALIFORNIA; DEATH VALLEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CAPRA IBEX;

EID: 29144447364     PISSN: 00128252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2005.07.002     Document Type: Article

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