Combined paleomagnetic and isotopic data from the Doushantuo carbonates, South China: implications for the ``snowball Earth'' hypothesis

Details Combined paleomagnetic and isotopic data from the Doushantuo carbonates, South China: implications for the ``snowball Earth'' hypothesis Combined paleomagnetic and isotopic data from the Doushantuo carbonates, South China: implications for the ``snowball Earth'' hypothesis

Aug 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004e%26psl.224..387m&link_type=abstract

Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 224, Issue 3-4, p. 387-398.

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South China Block, Paleomagnetism, Paleogeography, Isotopic Data, Neoproterozoic Glaciation

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We investigated the paleomagnetism and stable isotopic signatures of the Late Neoproterozoic Nantuo tillite and overlying Doushantuo carbonates (Hunan Province, South China Block). The carbon isotope profile is typical of post-glacial series commonly observed elsewhere for the upper part of the Neoproterozoic. Together with recent radiometric dates of the carbonates, a Marinoan (ca. 600 Ma) age for the Nantuo tillite, rather than a Sturtian (ca. 750 Ma) age, is preferred. The Nantuo glacial deposits and its associated cap carbonates are remagnetized. On the contrary, a positive fold test and similarities between the Australia and South China apparent polar wander paths suggest a primary remanence for the Doushantuo Formation, which yields an equatorial paleolatitude of 3+/-4.5°N. Four other paleomagnetic studies have found glacial sediments to be situated at low latitudes during this period. A distributed repartition of glacial deposits from low to high latitudes is shown on a new ca. 600 Ma paleogeographic reconstruction, strongly supporting the existence of a global Neoproterozoic glaciation.

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