Aftermath of a snowball Earth

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Higgins, John A ^a   Schrag, Daniel P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Chemical weathering; Glaciation; Neoproterozoic; Snowball earth; Strontium isotopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646246003     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GC000403     Document Type: Article

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