Carbon and strontium isotope evolution of seawater across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: Evidence from the Xiaotan section, NE Yunnan, South China

Precambrian Research

Volumn 225, Issue , 2013, Pages 128-147

  Li, Da ^a,b   Ling, Hong Fei ^a   Shields Zhou, Graham A ^b   Chen, Xi ^a   Cremonese, Lorenzo ^b   Och, Lawrence ^b   Thirlwall, Matthew ^c   Manning, Christina J ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Ediacaran Cambrian; Strontium isotopes; Xiaotan section; Yangtze platform

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CAMBRIAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; DISSOLUTION; DOLOSTONE; EDIACARAN; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LEACHING; LIMESTONE; PHOSPHORITE; SEAWATER; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

CHINA; MONGOLIA; MOROCCO; SIBERIA; YANGTZE BASIN; YUNNAN;

WATSONELLA;

EID: 84872179357     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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