Towards a 'natural' time scale for the Precambrian - A proposal

Lethaia

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 219-222

  Bleeker, Wouter ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archean; Geological time scale; Hadean; Precambrian; Proterozoic; Rock record

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTEROZOIC;

EID: 3242730490     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00241160410006456     Document Type: Article

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