The Nebula Winter: The united view of the snowball Earth, mass extinctions, and explosive evolution in the late Neoproterozoic and Cambrian periods

Gondwana Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1153-1163

  Kataoka, Ryuho ^a   Ebisuzaki, Toshikazu ^b   Miyahara, Hiroko ^c,f   Nimura, Tokuhiro ^d   Tomida, Takayuki ^b   Sato, Tatsuhiko ^e   Maruyama, Shigenori ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c MUSASHINO ART UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Okayama Astronomical Museum   (Japan)

^e JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^f JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cambrian explosion; Mass extinctions; Molecular cloud; Snowball Earth; Supernova

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; MARINE SEDIMENT; MASS EXTINCTION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PROTEROZOIC;

EID: 84893801843     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2013.05.003     Document Type: Article

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