Emplacement of the Franklin large igneous province and initiation of the Sturtian Snowball Earth
Judy Pin Pu1, Francis Macdonald1, Mark David Schmitz2, Robert Rainbird3, Wouter Bleeker3, Barra Augusta Peak4, Rebecca Marie Flowers5, Paul F Hoffman6, Matthew E Rioux7 and Michael A Hamilton8, (1)University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Earth Science, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)Dept Geoscience, Boise, ID, United States, (3)Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, (4)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)Univ of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Geological Sciences, Boulder, United States, (6)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (7)University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (8)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada