Pocatello Formation and overlying strata, southeastern Idaho: Snowball Earth diamictites, cap carbonates, and Neoproterozoic isotopic profiles

GSA Field Guides

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 251-259

  Link, Paul Karl ^a   Corsetti, Frank A ^b   Lorentz, Nathaniel J ^b  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cap carbonate; Neoproterozoic; Pocatello Formation; Sturtian glaciation

Indexed keywords

CARBONATION; LIME;

CAP CARBONATES; CARBONATE CYCLE; FIELD TRIPS; NEOPROTEROZOIC; OVERLYING STRATA; POCATELLO FORMATION; SNOWBALL EARTH; STURTIAN GLACIATION;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

EID: 77949807002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2005.fld006(12)     Document Type: Article

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