Strange bedfellows: Glacial diamictite and cap carbonate from the Marinoan (635 Ma) glaciation in Namibia

Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-119

  Hoffman, Paul F ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cap carbonate; Carbon isotopes; Carbonate platform; Glacial diamictite; Namibia; Neoproterozoic; Sea level change; Snowball Earth

Indexed keywords

CAP CARBONATES; CARBON ISOTOPES; CARBONATE PLATFORM; GLACIAL DIAMICTITE; NAMIBIA; NEOPROTEROZOIC; SEALEVEL CHANGE; SNOWBALL EARTH;

CARBONATION; DEBRIS; EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS; HYDRAULICS; ISOTOPES; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATES; SOLAR RADIATION; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; WATER LEVELS; WEATHERING;

ICE;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CRATON; DIAMICTITE; GLACIAL EROSION; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; OOLITE; PROTEROZOIC; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; WEATHERING;

CONGO; NAMIBIA;

EID: 78751524311     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2010.01206.x     Document Type: Article

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