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Schweizerbart
In:
Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie / Teil 1, 1998 (5-6). pp. 435-445.
Publication Date:
2018-02-06
Description:
The global sediment mass-age distribution indicates large variations in the rates
of carbonate sedimentation through time. The largest mass of carbonate deposited during
the entire history of the earth was produced during the Cambrian, possibly following on an
episode of phosphogenesis in the Late Precambrian. A second major episode occurred during the Late Devonian, probably reflecting the invasion of land by plants that altered the
rock-weathering and soil-forming regimes. Other lesser pulses of carbonate deposition occurred
in the Late Permian, Triassic, and Cretaceous. A shift in the locus of carbonate deposition
from shallow waters to the deep sea occurred during the Cretaceous.
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