Another test for snowball Earth

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 383-384

  Lorentz, Nathaniel J ^a   Corsetti, Frank A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; SNOW; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 34147174391     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/Focus042007.1     Document Type: Article

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