The stratigraphic relationship between the Shuram carbon isotope excursion, the oxygenation of Neoproterozoic oceans, and the first appearance of the Ediacara biota and bilaterian trace fossils in northwestern Canada
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a Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, 20 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA 02138, United States b Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences/GEOTOP, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3A 2T5, Canada c Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada d Princeton University, Guyot Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544, United States
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