The Great Oxidation and a Siderian snowball Earth: MIF-S based correlation of Paleoproterozoic glacial epochs

Chemical Geology

Volumn 362, Issue , 2013, Pages 143-156

  Hoffman, Paul F ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Glaciation; Great oxidation; Oxygen; Paleoproterozoic; Snowball Earth

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OXYGEN;

CORRELATION SCHEME; EARTH MASS; GLACIAL EPOCHS; GLACIATION; GREAT OXIDATION; LOW LATITUDES; MASS-INDEPENDENT FRACTIONATION; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; S ISOTOPES; SNOWBALL EARTH;

OXIDATION;

GLACIATION; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROTEROZOIC; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SULFATE; SULFIDE;

SOUTHERN AFRICA;

SIDERIA;

EID: 84889078300     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.04.018     Document Type: Article

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