Cryoconite pans on Snowball Earth: supraglacial oases for Cryogenian eukaryotes?

Geobiology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 531-542

  Hoffman, P F ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; CLIMATE MODELING; COLD WATER; CYANOBACTERIUM; EDIACARAN; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNGUS; GLACIATION; ICE SHEET; METAZOAN; ORGANIC MATTER; PROTIST; SEA ICE; SOLAR RADIATION; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; VOLCANIC ASH;

CHLOROPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; METAZOA; PROTISTA;

DUST;

ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE; CYANOBACTERIUM; DUST; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; ICE COVER; PHYSIOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE; CYANOBACTERIA; DUST; EARTH (PLANET); ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; ICE COVER;

EID: 84978411828     PISSN: 14724677     EISSN: 14724669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12191     Document Type: Article

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