How tillite weathering during the snowball Earth aftermath induced cap carbonate deposition

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1027-1030

  Fabre, Sébastien ^a   Berger, Gilles ^a  

^a IRAP   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC CO; CAP CARBONATES; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; DEGLACIATIONS; EXCHANGE REACTION; GLACIAL EROSION; GRAIN SIZE; MODELING APPROACH; PRECAMBRIAN; ROCK SURFACES; SHORT PERIODS; SNOWBALL EARTH;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATES; DISSOLUTION;

WEATHERING;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EARLY EARTH; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRECAMBRIAN; TILLITE;

EID: 84868695064     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33340.1     Document Type: Article

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