Condensation origin for Neoproterozoic cap carbonates during deglaciation

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 319-322

  Kennedy, Martin J ^a   Christie Blick, Nicholas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMADEUS; AUSTRALIA; CAP CARBONATES; CURRENT MODELS; DEGLACIAL; DEGLACIATIONS; EDIACARAN; FIELD STUDIES; GLACIAL FACIES; GLACIAL SEDIMENTS; GREENHOUSE CONDITIONS; INCISED VALLEY; NEOPROTEROZOIC; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT PROVENANCE; SILICICLASTIC SEDIMENTS; TROPICAL CONDITIONS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CARBONATES; CONDENSATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LAMINATING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CARBONATION;

CARBONATE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CONDENSATION; DEGLACIATION; EDIACARAN; LITHOLOGY; PELAGIC DEPOSIT; PROVENANCE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; UNCONFORMITY;

AMADEUS BASIN; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79954612470     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31348.1     Document Type: Article

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