Sea level variations during snowball Earth formation and evolution: 2. the influence of Earth's rotation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 118, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4425-4445

  Liu, Yonggang ^a,b   Peltier, W Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Earth's rotation; global glaciation; Neoproterozoic; sea level; snowball Earth; true polar wander

Indexed keywords

EARTH ROTATION; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FORMATION MECHANISM; GLACIATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LOWER MANTLE; MANTLE CONVECTION; PALEOCLIMATE; POLAR WANDERING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROTEROZOIC; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EID: 84885123254     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrb.50294     Document Type: Article

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