Cybertectonic Earth and Gaia's weak hand: Sedimentary geology, sediment cycling and the Earth system

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 277-296

  Leeder, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAIA THEORY; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROTEROZOIC; SEA LEVEL; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; UPLIFT;

EID: 33947402234     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492006-074     Document Type: Review

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