Are Proterozoic cap carbonates and isotopic excursions a record of gas hydrate destabilization following Earth's coldest intervals?: Comment

Geology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 286-287

  Hoffman, Paul F ^a   Halverson, Galen P ^a   Grotzinger, John P ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAP ROCK; CARBONATE ROCK; COOLING; GAS HYDRATE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LITERATURE REVIEW; PROTEROZOIC;

EID: 84871290731     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)030<0286:APCCAI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Note

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