The Onset of the Sturtian Snowball Earth: New Geochronology and Chemostratigraphy from the Tambien Group of Ethiopia

Yuem Park1, Scott Angus MacLennan2, Nicholas Swanson-Hysell3, Adam C Maloof4, Blair Schoene4, Mulugeta Alene5, Marissa M Tremblay6, Eliel Anttila1 and Bereket Haileab7, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)Addis Ababa University, Department of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (6)Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (7)Carleton College, Department of Geology, Northfield, MN, United States