The Shuram and subsequent Ediacaran carbon isotope excursions from southwest Laurentia, and implications for environmental stability during the metazoan radiation

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 1539-1559

  Verdel, Charles ^a,c   Wernicke, Brian P ^a   Bowring, Samuel A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CARBON; ISOTOPES; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; RADIOMETRY; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; ZIRCON;

CARBON ISOTOPE EXCURSIONS; CARBON ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; DETRITAL ZIRCON GRAINS; EASTERN CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC VARIATIONS; TEMPORAL CORRELATIONS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY;

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; EDIACARAN; GLOBAL OCEAN; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METAZOAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SILTSTONE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION;

AUSTRALIA; CALIFORNIA; CANADA; LAURENTIAN MOUNTAINS; OMAN; QUEBEC [CANADA]; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 79959307159     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30369.1     Document Type: Article

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