Carbon and strontium isotope fluctuations and paleoceanographic changes in the late Neoproterozoic Araras carbonate platform, southern Amazon craton, Brazil

Chemical Geology

Volumn 237, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 168-190

  Nogueira, Afonso C R ^a   Riccomini, Claudio ^b   Sial, Alcides N ^c   Moura, Candido A V ^d   Trindade, Ricardo I F ^b   Fairchild, Thomas R ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon craton; Araras carbonate platform; C isotopes; Neoproterozoic; Snowball Earth; Sr isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONATE ROCK; CRATON; DIAMICTITE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33846650683     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2006.06.016     Document Type: Article

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