Formation of the ' Great Unconformity' as a trigger for the Cambrian explosion

Nature

Volumn 484, Issue 7394, 2012, Pages 363-366

  Peters, Shanan E ^a   Gaines, Robert R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER;

BASEMENT ROCK; BIOMINERALIZATION; BOUNDARY CONDITION; CAMBRIAN; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CONTINENTAL CRUST; DENUDATION; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HIATUS; INLAND SEA; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOZOIC; PHANEROZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; REGOLITH; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTATION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; SKELETON; TAXONOMY; TRANSGRESSION; TRANSITION ZONE; UNCONFORMITY; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; BIOMINERALIZATION; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; NEOPROTEROZOIC; PALEOZOIC; PHANEROZOIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; WEATHERING;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; NORTH AMERICA; SEAWATER; SOIL;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 84859446414     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10969     Document Type: Article

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