"Snowball Earth" during the Neoproterozoic

Bulletin of Mineralogy Petrology and Geochemistry

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 233-238

  Chu, Xue Lei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Glacial events; Global change in paleo environment; Neoproterozoic; Snowball Earth

Indexed keywords

EARLY EARTH; GLACIATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PROTEROZOIC;

EID: 4544335320     PISSN: 10072802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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