Dawn of metazoans: to what extent was this influenced by the onset of “modern-type plate tectonics”?
Abstract The appearance of complex megascopic multicellular eukaryotes in the Ediacaran occurred just when the dynamics of a cooling Earth allowed establishment of a new style of global tectonics that continues to the present as “modern-type plate tectonics”. The advent of this style was first regis...
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Language: | English |
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Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia
2020-05-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Geology |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S2317-48892020000200606&tlng=en |