Re-Os geochronology and coupled Os-Sr isotope constraints on the Sturtian snowball Earth

After nearly a billion years with no evidence for glaciation, ice advanced to equatorial latitudes at least twice between 717 and 635 Mya. Although the initiation mechanism of these Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth events has remained a mystery, the broad synchronicity of rifting of the supercontinent...

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Main Authors: Dudas, Francis O. (Contributor), Hallman, Christian (Contributor), Rooney, Alan D. (Author), Macdonald, Francis A. (Author), Strauss, Justin V. (Author), Selby, David (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2014-08-28T14:21:20Z.
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