Chemostratigraphic constraints on early Ediacaran carbonate ramp dynamics, Río de la Plata craton, Uruguay

Gondwana Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 1073-1090

  Aubet, Natalie R ^a   Pecoits, Ernesto ^a   Bekker, Andrey ^b   Gingras, Murray K ^a   Zwingmann, Horst ^c,d,e   Veroslavsky, Gerardo ^f   de Santa Ana, Héctor ^g   Konhauser, Kurt O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

^g ANCAP   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Basin stratification; Chemostratigraphy; Ediacaran; KAr illite geochronology; Uruguay

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBONATE PLATFORM; CARBONATE RAMP; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITION; EDIACARAN; LIMESTONE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; REDOX CONDITIONS; SHALLOW WATER; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

RIO DE LA PLATA CRATON; URUGUAY;

EID: 84866041054     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2012.03.011     Document Type: Article

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