The survival of benthic macroscopic phototrophs on a Neoproterozoic snowball Earth

Geology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 507-510

  Ye, Qin ^a   Tong, Jinnan ^a   Xiao, Shuhai ^b   Zhu, Shixing ^a,c   An, Zhihui ^a   Tian, Li ^a   Hu, Jun ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TIANJIN INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS PRESERVATION; EARTH (PLANET);

BLACK SHALES; EUKARYOTIC LIVES; FOSSIL RECORDS; NEOPROTEROZOIC; PHYSIOLOGICAL RANGE; SNOWBALL EARTH; TROPICAL OCEAN; YANGTZE BLOCK;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BENTHOS; EDIACARAN; EUKARYOTE; FOSSIL RECORD; GENOMICS; GLACIATION; GLACIER DYNAMICS; PALEONTOLOGY; PROTEROZOIC; SURVIVAL;

CHINA;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84929649289     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G36640.1     Document Type: Article

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