Carbonate Layers (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

Carbonate Layers

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Carbonate layers hold carbon isotope evidence of the late Precambrian greening of the Earth. These are located in the Old Dad Mountains in California.

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L.P. Knauth, Arizona State University

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