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A new look at saponite formation and its implications for early animal records in the Ediacaran of South China

  1. J. Huang1,2,
  2. X. Chu2,3,*,
  3. T. W. Lyons4,
  4. N. J. Planavsky4,
  5. H. Wen5

Article first published online: 26 NOV 2012

DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12018

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Geobiology

Geobiology

Volume 11, Issue 1, pages 3–14, January 2013

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Huang, J., Chu, X., Lyons, T. W., Planavsky, N. J. and Wen, H. (2013), A new look at saponite formation and its implications for early animal records in the Ediacaran of South China. Geobiology, 11: 3–14. doi: 10.1111/gbi.12018

Author Information

  1. 1

    CAS Key Laboratory of Crust-Mantle Materials and Environments, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

  2. 2

    State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China

  3. 3

    State Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics, Northwest University, Xi'an, China

  4. 4

    Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA

  5. 5

    Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, Guizhou, China

*Corresponding author: X. Chu. Tel.: 86 10 82998417; fax: 86 10 62010846; e-mail: xlchu@mail.iggcas.ac.cn

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 11 DEC 2012
  2. Article first published online: 26 NOV 2012
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 17 OCT 2012
  4. Manuscript Received: 29 MAY 2012

Funded by

  • Ministry of Science and Technology of China. Grant Number: 2011CB808805
  • the Natural Science Foundation of China. Grant Numbers: 41172029, 41003034
  • the State Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics, Northwest University in China
  • U.S. National Science Foundation
  • NASA Astrobiology Institute

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