Origins and assessment of snowball Earth hypotheses

Geological Magazine

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 633-642

  Harland, W Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Glaciation; Iceball Earth; Snowball Earth; Tillite

Indexed keywords

ICE; SNOW; STRATIGRAPHY;

FREEZING TEMPERATURES; GLACIAL FACIES; GLACIATION; MARINE FACIES; SNOW AND ICE; SNOWBALL EARTH; TILLITE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENTS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

GLACIATION; ICE COVER; PALEOLATITUDE; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTEROZOIC; SNOW; TILLITE;

EID: 34447328218     PISSN: 00167568     EISSN: 14695081     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756807003391     Document Type: Article

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