Chapter 5: Chemical sediments associated with Neoproterozoic glaciation: Iron formation, cap carbonate, barite and phosphorite

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-80

  Hoffman, Paul F ^a,b   Macdonald, Francis A ^a   Halverson, Galen P ^c,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARAGONITE; BARITE; CARBONATE; DOLOSTONE; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; IRON; LITHOFACIES; MELTWATER; MINERALOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PHOSPHORITE; PLUME; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; STROMATOLITE; TRACE ELEMENT;

EID: 84860700886     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/M36.5     Document Type: Article

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