Re-Os geochronology and coupled Os-Sr isotope constraints on the Sturtian snowball Earth

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 51-56

  Rooney, Alan D ^a   Macdonald, Francis A ^a   Strauss, Justin V ^a   Dudás, Ffrancis Ö ^b   Hallmann, Christian ^b,c,d   Selby, David ^e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Neoproterozoic glaciation; Osmium isotopes; Rhenium osmium geochronology; Strontium isotopes; Windermere Supergroup

Indexed keywords

OSMIUM; STRONTIUM;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CHRONOLOGY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIATION; GLACIER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STURTIAN; WEATHERING;

EID: 84891914475     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317266110     Document Type: Article

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