Fast or slow melting of the Marinoan snowball Earth? The cap dolostone record

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 295, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 215-225

  Font, E ^a   Nedelec A ^b   Trindade, R I F ^c   Moreau, C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d CEA SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Cap dolostone; Carbon cycle; Magnetostratigraphy; Marinoan glaciation; Microbially mediated dolomite precipitation; Neoproterozoic; Snowball Earth

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; DOLOMITE; DOLOSTONE; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; MAGNETIC REVERSAL; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; MICROBIAL MAT; PROTEROZOIC; STRATABOUND DEPOSIT;

BRAZIL; LAGOA VERMELHA; MATO GROSSO; RIO GRANDE DO SUL;

EID: 77955274107     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.05.039     Document Type: Article

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