New constraints on equatorial temperatures during a Late Neoproterozoic snowball Earth glaciation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 406, Issue , 2014, Pages 110-122

  Ewing, Ryan C ^a   Eisenman, Ian ^b   Lamb, Michael P ^c   Poppick, Laura ^d   Maloof, Adam C ^d   Fischer, Woodward W ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aeolian; Cryogenian; Paleoclimate; Periglacial; Snowball Earth

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN; CRYOGENIAN; PALEOCLIMATES; PERIGLACIAL; SNOWBALL EARTH;

CLIMATE MODELING; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLACIATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOTEMPERATURE; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PROTEROZOIC; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84907703689     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.09.017     Document Type: Article

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