• DOI:10.1038/nature10969
Corpus ID: 4423007

Formation of the ‘Great Unconformity’ as a trigger for the Cambrian explosion

@article{Peters2012FormationOT,
  title={Formation of the ‘Great Unconformity’ as a trigger for the Cambrian explosion},
  author={S. Peters and R. Gaines},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2012},
  volume={484},
  pages={363-366}
}

• S. Peters, R. Gaines
• Published 2012
• Medicine
• Nature

The transition between the Proterozoic and Phanerozoic eons, beginning 542 million years (Myr) ago, is distinguished by the diversification of multicellular animals and by their acquisition of mineralized skeletons during the Cambrian period. Considerable progress has been made in documenting and more precisely correlating biotic patterns in the Neoproterozoic–Cambrian fossil record with geochemical and physical environmental perturbations, but the mechanisms responsible for those perturbations… Expand

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