Environmental upheavals of the Ediacaran period and the Cambrian “explosion” of animal life

The second half of the Ediacaran period began with a large impact – the Acraman impact in South Australia, which was accompanied by a negative δ13Ccarb anomaly and an extinction-radiation event involving acritarchs. A few million years later (∼570 Ma?) there was a second, deeper and longer-lived wor...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grant M. Young
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-07-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987114001145