Sr isotope excursion across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary in the Three Gorges area, South China

Gondwana Research

Volumn 14, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 134-147

  Sawaki, Yusuke ^a   Ohno, Takeshi ^a   Fukushi, Yusuke ^a   Komiya, Tsuyoshi ^a   Ishikawa, Tomoko ^a   Hirata, Takafumi ^a   Maruyama, Shigenori ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gondwana; Precambrian Cambrian boundary; Sr isotope

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE ROCK; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEEP DRILLING; FOSSIL; OUTCROP; PRECAMBRIAN-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

CHINA; THREE GORGES;

EID: 46149104363     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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