Climate-ice sheet simulations of neoproterozoic glaciation before and after collapse to snowball earth

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 146, Issue , 2004, Pages 91-105

  Pollard, David ^a   Kasting, James F ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84990905888     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/146GM09     Document Type: Chapter

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