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Volume 24, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0812-3985
  • E-ISSN: 1834-7533

Abstract

We discuss the evidence for frigid, strongly seasonal climates near sea level which preferentially existed in low palaeolati-tudes during the Neoproterozoic. The Neoproterozoic glacial-periglacial palaeoclimate is one of the major paradoxes in contemporary earth science.

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Keyword(s): glaciation; palaeo-climate; palaeomagnetism; Proterozoic

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