A basin redox transect at the dawn of animal life

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 371-372, Issue , 2013, Pages 143-155

  Sperling, Erik A ^a   Halverson, Galen P ^b   Knoll, Andrew H ^a   MacDonald, Francis A ^a   Johnston, David T ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animals; Canada; Cryogenian; Fifteenmile Group; Oxygen; Physiology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN; CANADA; CARBON PERCENTAGES; CRYOGENIAN; FIFTEENMILE GROUP; ORGANIC CARBON LOADING; REDOX-SENSITIVE TRACE ELEMENTS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

DIGITAL STORAGE; ISOTOPES; LOADING; METABOLISM; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; PHYSIOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

ANIMALS;

CAMBRIAN; EUKARYOTE; FOSSIL RECORD; METABOLISM; METAZOAN; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; REDOX CONDITIONS; WATER COLUMN;

CANADA; YUKON TERRITORY;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; EUKARYOTA; EUMETAZOA; METAZOA;

EID: 84878474859     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.04.003     Document Type: Article

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