Precambrian supercontinents, glaciations, atmospheric oxygenation, metazoan evolution and an impact that may have changed the second half of Earth history

Geoscience Frontiers

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 247-261

  Young, Grant M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Glaciations; Impacts; Metazoa; Oxygenation; Proterozoic supercontinents

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE OSCILLATION; GLACIATION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; ICE COVER; MANTLE STRUCTURE; METAZOAN; OXYGENATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTEROZOIC; RIFTING; SUPERCONTINENT;

SOUTH AFRICA;

METAZOA;

EID: 84876033428     PISSN: 16749871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2012.07.003     Document Type: Review

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