Multiple causes of Earth's earliest global glaciation

Terra Nova

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 130-137

  Melezhik, Victor A ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOOD BASALT; GLACIATION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROTEROZOIC;

EID: 33645052968     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2006.00672.x     Document Type: Article

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