Chapter 6: A review of the Chemical Index of Alteration (CIA) and its application to the study of Neoproterozoic glacial deposits and climate transitions

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 81-92

  Bahlburg, Heinrich ^a   Dobrzinski, Nicole ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b RWE POWER AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; FACIES ANALYSIS; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EID: 84864048011     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/M36.6     Document Type: Review

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