Carbon isotope chemostratigraphy of a Precambrian/Cambrian boundary section in the Three Gorge area, South China: Prominent global-scale isotope excursions just before the Cambrian Explosion

Gondwana Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 193-208

  Ishikawa, Tomoko ^a   Ueno, Yuichiro ^a   Komiya, Tsuyoshi ^a   Sawaki, Yusuke ^a   Han, Jian ^b   Shu, Degan ^b   Li, Yong ^c   Maruyama, Shigenori ^a   Yoshida, Naohiro ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cambrian Explosion; Carbon isotope; Early Cambrian; Precambrian Cambrian boundary; South China

Indexed keywords

BLACK SHALE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; DOLOSTONE; EDIACARAN; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LIMESTONE; PRECAMBRIAN-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY;

CHINA; THREE GORGES;

EID: 46149094150     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2007.10.008     Document Type: Article

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