From snowball earth to the Cambrian bioradiation: Calibration of Ediacaran-Cambrian earth history in South China

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 254, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-6

  Zhu, Maoyan ^a   Strauss, Harald ^b   Shields, Graham A ^b  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACANTHOMORPHA; ACRITARCHA; ALGAE; METAZOA;

EID: 34548678905     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.03.026     Document Type: Editorial

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