Correlation of Paleoproterozoic glaciations based on U-Pb zircon ages for tuff beds in the Transvaal and Huronian Supergroups

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 382, Issue , 2013, Pages 173-180

  Rasmussen, Birger ^a   Bekker, Andrey ^b   Fletcher, Ian R ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Geochronology; Great Oxidation Event; Paleoproterozoic; Snowball Earth; Tuff; Zircon

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN; GLACIAL DEPOSITS; GREAT OXIDATION EVENT; PALEOENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTION; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; SNOWBALL EARTH; STRATIGRAPHIC DATA; TUFF;

DEPOSITS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GALLIUM; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; LEAD; METHANE; OXYGEN; SILICATE MINERALS; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFUR; ZIRCON;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

EVAPORITE; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; OXYGEN; PALEOSOL; PROTEROZOIC; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFATE; SULFUR ISOTOPE; TUFF; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AFRICA; TRANSVAAL;

EID: 84886288586     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.08.037     Document Type: Article

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