A billion years of environmental stability and the emergence of eukaryotes: new data from northern Australia

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 555-558

  Brasier, M D ^a   Lindsay, J F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; STRATIGRAPHY;

CARBON ISOTOPES; DRIVING FORCES; ENVIRONMENTAL STABILITY; NORTHERN AUSTRALIA; NUTRIENT CYCLE; PLANETARY CLIMATE; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SURFACE ENVIRONMENTS;

GALLIUM COMPOUNDS;

CARBON ISOTOPE; EUKARYOTE; PROTEROZOIC; STRATIGRAPHY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84874988921     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0555:ABYOES>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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