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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Main Authors: Umberto G. Cordani, Thomas R. Fairchild, Carlos E. Ganade, Marly Babinski, Juliana de Moraes Leme
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Geologia 2020-05-01
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