Tectonic driving of Neoproterozoic glaciations: Evidence from extreme oxygen isotope signature of meteoric water in granite

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 256, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 196-210

  Zheng, Yong Fei ^a,b   Wu, Yuan Bao ^a,c   Gong, Bing ^a   Chen, Ren Xu ^a   Tang, Jun ^a   Zhao, Zi Fu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

cold paleoclimate; continental glaciation; garnet; H isotope; hydrothermal alteration; O isotope; rift tectonics; U Pb age; zircon

Indexed keywords

GLACIATIONS; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; SUPERCONTINENTAL RIFT BASINS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; GRANITE; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; TECTONICS; WATER;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

EMPLACEMENT; GARNET; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLACIATION; GRANITE; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; MAGMATISM; METEORIC WATER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCLIMATE; RIFTING; RODINIA; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

EID: 33847662542     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.01.026     Document Type: Article

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