Carbon and oxygen isotope chemostratigraphies of the Yangtze platform, South China: Decoding temperature and environmental changes through the Ediacaran

Gondwana Research

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 333-353

  Tahata, Miyuki ^a   Ueno, Yuichiro ^a   Ishikawa, Tomoko ^a   Sawaki, Yusuke ^b   Murakami, Kazuki ^a   Han, Jian ^c   Shu, Degan ^c   Li, Yong ^d   Guo, Junfeng ^d   Yoshida, Naohiro ^a   Komiya, Tsuyoshi ^a,e  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Doushantuo Fm.; Gaskiers Glaciation; Shuram excursion; The Ediacaran

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE ROCK; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EDIACARAN; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOTEMPERATURE; REMINERALIZATION;

CHINA; THREE GORGES; YANGTZE PLATFORM;

EID: 84869878302     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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