Initiation of leaking Earth: An ultimate trigger of the Cambrian explosion

Gondwana Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 910-944

  Maruyama, S ^a   Sawaki, Y ^a   Ebisuzaki, T ^b   Ikoma, M ^c   Omori, S ^d   Komabayashi, T ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Leaking Earth; Nutrients; Snowball Earth; The Cambrian explosion

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CAMBRIAN; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; EARLY EARTH; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY;

EID: 84893729137     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2013.03.012     Document Type: Review

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