Further reading on stable isotopes and chemostratigraphy:

Aharon, P., Schidlowski, M. & Singh, I. B. 1987. Chronostratigraphic markers in the end-Precambrian carbon isotope record of the Lesser Himalaya. - Nature, 327 (25 June 1987): 699-702.

Banerjee, D. M., Schidlowski, M. & Arneth, J. D. 1986. Genesis of upper Proterozoic-Cambrian phosphorite deposits of India: isotopic inferences from carbonate fluorapatite, carbonate and organic carbon. - Precambrian Research, 33: 239-253.

Barnes, C. R., Wright, C. A., Jacobsen, S. B. & Veizer, J. 1995. Early Paleozoic paleogeography and paleoceanography: Sr and Nd isotope geochemical data from Conodonts. - Palaeontological Association Annual Conference, University College Galway, 16th-20th December 1995: 7-8; Galway.

Borg, S. G. & DePaolo, D. J. 1994. Laurentia, Australia, and Antarctica as a Late Proterozoic supercontinent: Constraints from isotopic mapping. - Geology, 22 (4): 307-310.

Brasier, M. D. 1992. Paleoceanography and changes in the biological cycling of phosphorus across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary. - In: Lipps, J. H. & Signor, P. W. (eds.) Origin and Early Evolution of the Metazoa: 483-523; New York (Plenum Press).

Brasier, M. D. 1994. Towards a carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Cambrian System: potential of the Great Basin succession. - In: Hailwood, E. A. & Kidd, R. B. (eds.) High Resolution Stratigraphy. Geological Society Special Publication, 70: 341-350.

Brasier, M. D., Anderson, M. M. & Corfield, R. M. 1992. Oxygen and carbon isotope stratigraphy of early Cambrian carbonates in southeastern Newfoundland and England. - Geological Magazine, 129 (3): 265-279.

Brasier, M. D., Corfield, R. M., Derry, L. A., Rozanov, A. Yu. & Zhuravlev, A. Yu. 1994. Multiple delta13C excursions spanning the Cambrian explosion to the Botomian crisis in Siberia. - Geology, 22 (5): 455-458.

Brasier, M. D., Khomentovsky, V. V. & Corfield, R. M. 1993. Stable isotopic calibration of the earliest skeletal fossil assemblages in eastern Siberia (Precambrian-Cambrian boundary). - Terra Nova, 5: 225-232.

Brasier, M. D., Magaritz, M., Corfield, R., Luo Huilin, Wu Xiche, Ouyang Lin, Jiang Zhiwen, Hamdi, B., He Tinggui & Fraser A. G. 1990. The carbon- and oxygen-isotope record of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary interval in China and Iran and their correlation. - Geological Magazine, 127 (4): 319-332.

Brasier, M. D., Rozanov, A. Yu., Zhuravlev, A. Yu., Corfield, R. M. & Derry, L. A. 1994. A carbon isotope reference scale for the Lower Cambrian succession in Siberia: report of IGCP Project 303. - Geological Magazine, 131 (6): 767-783.

Brasier, M. D., Shields, G., Kuleshov, V. N. & Zhegallo, E. A. 1996. Integrated chemo- and biostratigraphic calibration of early animal evolution: Neoproterozoic-early Cambrian of southwest Mongolia. - Geological Magazine, 133 (4): 445-485.

Burns, S. J. & Matter, A. 1993. Carbon isotopic record of the latest Proterozoic from Oman. - Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae, 86 (2): 595-607.

Corsetti, F. A. & Kaufman, A. J. 1994. Chemostratigraphy of Neoproterozoic-Cambrian units, White-Inyo region, Eastern California and Western Nevada: implications for global correlation and faunal distribution. - Palaios, 9: 211-219.

Derry, L. A., Brasier, M. D., Corfield, R. M., Rozanov, A. Yu. & Zhuravlev, A. Yu. 1994. Sr and C isotopes in Lower Cambrian carbonates from the Siberian craton: A paleoenvironmental record during the 'Cambrian explosion'. - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 128: 671-681.

Ebneth, S., Strauss, H., Gravestock, D. I. & Veizer, J. 1994. Carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Lower Cambrian: new data from South Australia and Siberia. - In: Ecological Aspects of the Cambrian Radiation (IGSP 366). Terra Nova Abstract Supplement 3: 3.

Foley, N. K., Clark, S. H. B., Woodruff, L. G. & Mosier, E. L. 1995: Geologic, geochemical, and isotopic studies of a carbonate- and siliciclastic-hosted Pb-Zn deposit at Lion Hill, Vermont. - U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin: 31 pp.

Gandin, A. & Turi, B. 1987. Sedimentologic and isotopic analysis of the Sardinian Cambrian carbonates. - In: Sassi, F. P. & Bourrouilh, R. (Hrsg.) IGCP Project No 5. Correlation of Prevariscan and Variscan events of the Alpine-Mediterranean mountain belt. Newsletter No. 7: 56.

Goldhaber, M. B., Church, S. E., Doe, B. R., Aleinikoff, J. N., Brannon, J. C., Podosek, F. A., Mosier, E. L., Taylor, C. D. & Gent, C. A. 1995: Lead and sulfur isotope investigation of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks from the southern Midcontinent of the United States; implications for paleohydrology and ore genesis of the Southeast Missouri lead belts. - Economic Geology and the Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 90 (7): 1875-1910.

Gorokhov, I. M., Semikhatov, M. A., Baskakov, A. V., Kutyavin, E. P., Mel'nikov, N. N., Sochava, A. V. & Turchenko, T. L. 1995. Izotopnyy sostav srontsiya v karbonatnykh rifeya, venda i nizhnego kembriya Sibiri [Strontium isotope composition in carbonate rocks in the Riphean, Vendian and Lower Cambrian of Siberia. - Stratigrafiya, Geologicheskaya Korrelyatsiya, 3 (1): 3-33; Moscow.

Grant, S. W. F. 1992. Carbon isotopic vital effects and organic diagenesis, Lower Cambrian Forteau Formation, northwest Newfoundland: Implications for delta13C chemostratigraphy. - Geology, 20 (3): 243-246.

Grotzinger, J. P., Bowring, S. A., Saylor, B. Z. & Kaufman, A. J. 1995. Biostratigraphic and geochronologic constraints on early animal evolution. - Science, 270 (5236), 27 October 1995: 598-604.

Holster, W. T., Magaritz, M. & Wright, J. 1986. Chemical and isotopic variations in the world ocean during Phanerozoic time. - In: Walliser, O. (ed.) Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, Vol. 8. Global Bio-Events: 63-74; Berlin, Heidelberg (Springer).

Jensen, S., Grant, S. W. F., Kaufman, A. J. & Corsetti, F. A. 1996: Chemostratigraphy of Neoproterozoic-Cambrian units, White-Inyo region, eastern California and western Nevada; implications for global correlation and faunal distribution; discussion and reply. - Palaios, 11 (1): 83-89.

Kaufman, A. J., Hayes, J. M., Knoll, A. H. & Germs, G. J. B. 1991. Isotopic compositions of carbonates and organic carbon from upper Proterozoic successions in Namibia: stratigraphic variation and the effects of diagenesis and metamorphism. - Precambrian Research, 49: 301-327.

Kaufman, A. J., Jacobsen, S. B. & Knoll, A. H. 1993. The Vendian record of Sr and C isotopic variations in seawater: implications for tectonics and palaeoclimate. - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 120: 409-430.

Kaufman, A. J. & Knoll, A. H. 1995. Neoproterozoic variations in the C-isotopic composition of seawater: stratigraphic and biogeochemical implications. - Precambrian Research, 73: 27-49.

Kaufman, A. J., Knoll, A. H., Semikhatov, M. A., Grotzinger, J. P., Jacobsen, S. B. & Adams, W. 1996. Integrated chronostratigraphy of Proterozoic-Cambrian boundary beds in the western Anabar region, northern Siberia. - Geological Magazine, 133 (5): 509-533.

Kimura, H., Matsumoto, R., Kakuwa, Y. & Hamdi, B. 1996. Geochemical and sedimentary records across Precambrian/Cambrian boundary, Elburz Mountains, North Iran; implications for a breakup of ocean stratification before the Cambrian explosion. - Abstracts of Papers Submitted to the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 27 (2): 667-668; Houston, TX.

Kirschvink, J. L., Magaritz, M., Ripperdan, R. L., Zhuravlev, A. Yu. & Rozanov, A. Yu. 1991. The Precambrian/Cambrian boundary: Magnetostratigraphy and carbon isotopes resolve correlation problems between Siberia, Morocco, and South China. - GSA Today, 1 (4): 69, 70-71, 87-88.

Knoll, A. H., Hayes, J. M., Kaufman, A. J., Swett, K. & Lambert, I. B. 1986. Secular variation in carbon isotope ratios from Upper Proterozoic successions of Svalbard and East Greenland. - Nature, 321 (26 June 1986): 832-838.

Knoll, A. H., Hayes, J. M., Kaufman, A. J., Swett, K. & Lambert, I. B. 1986. Secular variations in carbon isotope ratios from Upper Proterozoic successions of Svalbard and East Greenland. - Nature, 321: 832-838.

Li Yanhe, Wan Defang, Jiang Shaoyong & Zhang Hua 1994. Silicon isotope study of the Meishucun Precambrian-Cambrian boundary section, Yunnan, China. - Acta Geoscientia Sinica [Diqiu Xuebao], 1-2 (30-31): 75-84.

Li Yanhe, Wan Defang, Jiang Shaoyong & Zhong Hua 1995. [Silicon isotope study on the Meishucun Precambrian-Cambrian boundary section, Yunnan]. - Geological Review [Dizhi Lunping], 41 (2): 179-187.

Magaritz, M., Holser, W. T. & Kirshvink, J. L. 1986. Carbon-isotope events across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary on the Siberian Platform. - Nature, 320 (20 March 1986): 258-259.

Magaritz, M., Kirshvink, J. L., Latham, A. J., Zhuravlev, A. Yu. & Rozanov, A. Yu. 1991. Precambrian/Cambrian boundary problem: Carbon isotope correlations for Vendian and Tommotian time between Siberia and Morocco. - Geology, 19: 847-850.

Montañez, I. P., Banner, J. L., Osleger, D. A., Borg, L. E. & Bosserman, P. J. 1996. Integrated Sr isotope variations and sea-level history of Middle to Upper Cambrian platform carbonates: Implications for the evolution of Cambrian seawater 87Sr/86Sr. - Geology, 24 (10): 917-920.

Narbonne, G. M., Kaufman, A. J. & Knoll, A. H. 1994. Integrated chemostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Windermere Supergroup, northwestern Canada: Implications for Neoproterozoic correlations and the early evolution of animals. - Geological Society of America Bulletin, 106: 1281-1292.

Nicholas, C. J. 1996. The Sr isotope evolution of the oceans during the 'Cambrian Explosion'. - Journal of the Geological Society of London, 153: 243-254.

Pelechaty, S. M., Grotzinger, J. P., Kashirtsev, V. A., and Zhernovsky, V. P. 1996. Chemostratigraphic and sequence stratigraphic constraints on Vendian-Cambrian basin dynamics, northeast Siberian Craton. - Journal of Geology, 104 (5): 543-563.

Pelechaty, S. M., Kaufman, A. K. & Grotzinger, J. P. 1996. Evaluation of delta13C isotope stratigraphy for intrabasinal correlation: Vendian strata of the Olenek uplift and Kharaulakh Mountains, Siberian pkatform, Russia. - Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 108 (8): 992-1003.

Pokrovskiy, B. G. & Ivanovskaya, T. A. 1996. Isotopic composition of oxygen and hydrogen in the globular glauconite-illite minerals of Lower Cambrian, Vendian, and Riphean of Siberia, Ural, and northern Estonia. - Lithology and Mineral Resources, 31 (3): 240-247.

Pokrovskij, B. G. & Missarzhevskij, V. V. 1993. [Isotopic correlation of Precambrian and Cambrian of the Siberian platform]. - Doklady Akad. Nauk, 329: 768-771.

Rankey, E. C. 1993. Carbonate platform response to tectonism and eustasy; the Middle Cambrian carbonates of the lower and middle Conasauga Group, East Tennessee. - Master's, University of Tennessee: 191 pp.; Knoxville, TN.

Renner, E. 1994. Isotopic correlations of Precambrian/Cambrian boundary sections from the Anti-Atlas/Morocco. - Final Meeting of I.G.C.P. Project 293 "Geochemical Event Markers in the Phanerozoic", Erlangen September 26-28, 1994. Abstracts and Guide Book. Erlanger geologische Abhandlungen, 122: 48.

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Ripperdan, R. L., Magaritz, M. & Kirshvink, J. L. 1993. Carbon isotope and magnetic polarity evidence for non-depositional events within the Cambrian-Ordovician Boundary section near Dayangsha, Jilin Province, China. - Geological Magazine, 130 (4): 443-452.

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Rozanov, A. Yu. & Semikhatov, M. A. 1994. ë13C variations across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary in Siberia. - Final Meeting of I.G.C.P. Project 293 "Geochemical Event Markers in the Phanerozoic", Erlangen September 26-28, 1994. Abstracts and Guide Book. Erlanger geologische Abhandlungen, 122: 49.

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