87Sr/86Sr chemostratigraphy of Neoproterozoic Dalradian carbonates below the Port Askaig Glaciogenic Formation, Scotland

Precambrian Research

Volumn 179, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 150-164

  Sawaki, Yusuke ^a   Kawai, Takahiro ^a   Shibuya, Takazo ^a   Tahata, Miyuki ^a   Omori, Soichi ^a   Komiya, Tsuyoshi ^a   Yoshida, Naohiro ^a   Hirata, Takafumi ^a   Ohno, Takeshi ^a   Windley, Brian F ^b   Maruyama, Shigenori ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dalradian; Neoproterozoic; Older Cryogenian glaciation; Port Askaig Formation; Snowball Earth; Sr isotope variation

Indexed keywords

CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOOD BASALT; GLACIATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTEROZOIC; RODINIA; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; SUPERCONTINENT;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77950565877     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2010.02.021     Document Type: Article

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