Temporal constraints on the Paleoproterozoic Lomagundi-Jatuli carbon isotopic event

Geology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 655-658

  Melezhik, Victor A ^a   Huhma, Hannu ^b   Condon, Daniel J ^c,f   Fallick, Anthony E ^d   Whitehouse, Martin J ^e  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^f NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Carbon; Dolostone; Fennoscandia; Isotopes; Paleoproterozoic

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPIC EVENT; DOLOSTONE; ISOTOPIC EXCURSION; SEDIMENTARY CARBONATES;

CARBON; CARBONATES; ISOTOPES; PETROLOGY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CHRONOLOGY; DOLOSTONE; GREENSTONE BELT; LEAD-LEAD DATING; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; FENNOSCANDIA;

EID: 34547131561     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G23764A.1     Document Type: Article

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