Origin of giant wave ripples in snowball earth cap carbonate

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 827-830

  Lamb, Michael P ^a   Fischer, Woodward W ^a   Raub, Timothy D ^a,b   Taylor Perron, J ^c   Myrow, Paul M ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Department of Psychology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BED FORMS; CAP CARBONATES; CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; CLIMATE TRANSITION; EXTREME WAVES; FIRST-ORDER; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; GLOBAL CARBON CYCLE; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NORMAL WAVES; NUCCALEENA FORMATIONS; OSCILLATORY FLOWS; PHASE SPACES; SEDIMENT SIZE; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SNOWBALL EARTH; STABILITY DIAGRAM; TIME-PERIODS; WAVE CLIMATES; WAVE RIPPLES;

CARBONATION; PHASE SPACE METHODS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EARTH (PLANET);

BEDFORM; CARBON CYCLE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OSCILLATING FLOW; PERTURBATION; PROTEROZOIC; RIPPLE; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84866304839     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33093.1     Document Type: Article

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