Links of organic carbon cycling and burial to depositional depth gradients and establishment of a snowball Earth at 2.3Ga. Evidence from the Timeball Hill Formation, Transvaal Supergroup, South Africa

South African Journal of Geology

Volumn 109, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 109-122

  Coetzee, L L ^a   Beukes, Nicolas J ^a   Gutzmer, Jens ^a   Kakegawa, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CARBON CYCLE; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ORGANIC CARBON; PROTEROZOIC; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SILTSTONE;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TRANSVAAL;

EID: 33747619890     PISSN: 10120750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gssajg.109.1-2.109     Document Type: Article

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