Sedimentology and environmental significance of the Cryogenian successions of the Yangtze platform, South China block

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 100-122

  Dobrzinski, Nicole ^a   Bahlburg, Heinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

"Snowball Earth" hypothesis; Cryogenian glaciation; Diamictites; Neoproterozoic; Sedimentology; Yangtze platform

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; GLACIATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

SINIA;

EID: 34548677066     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.043     Document Type: Article

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