Petroleum systems and hydrocarbon potential of the North-West Himalaya of India and Pakistan

J Craig, N Hakhoo, GM Bhat, M Hafiz, MR Khan… - Earth-science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The Himalayan orogeny has shaped the sedimentary basins of the region, where
continuous deformation formed both 'conventional'and 'unconventional'petroleum systems at …

[HTML][HTML] Atmospheric oxygen of the Paleozoic

U Brand, AM Davis, KK Shaver, NJF Blamey… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The evolution of Earth's atmosphere is of extreme importance to the lithosphere,
hydrosphere and biosphere. This is particularly true for the role the biosphere played in the …

Integrated Ediacaran (Sinian) chronostratigraphy of South China

M Zhu, J Zhang, A Yang - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2007 - Elsevier
The Ediacaran Period was a critical time in the history of life and Earth. Understanding the
complex interactions between geological and biological events during this interval requires …

Possible links between extreme oxygen perturbations and the Cambrian radiation of animals

T He, M Zhu, BJW Mills, PM Wynn, AY Zhuravlev… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The role of oxygen as a driver for early animal evolution is widely debated. During the
Cambrian explosion, episodic radiations of major animal phyla occurred coincident with …

[PDF][PDF] 9.17-Geochemistry of evaporites and evolution of seawater

M Babel, BC Schreiber - Treatise on geochemistry, 2014 - researchgate.net
This chapter focuses almost exclusively on marine evaporites and in particular on how the
chemistry of seawater is reflected in the mineralogy and facies distribution of deposits in …

Sustained low marine sulfate concentrations from the Neoproterozoic to the Cambrian: Insights from carbonates of northwestern Mexico and eastern California

SJ Loyd, PJ Marenco, JW Hagadorn, TW Lyons… - Earth and Planetary …, 2012 - Elsevier
Stratigraphic carbonate-carbon isotope trends are similar for correlative Ediacaran and
Cambrian carbonates of Sonora, Mexico, and Death Valley, California. In contrast, the sulfur …

Calcite and aragonite seas and the de novo acquisition of carbonate skeletons

SM Porter - Geobiology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
A longstanding question in paleontology has been the influence of calcite and aragonite
seas on the evolution of carbonate skeletons. An earlier study based on 21 taxa that evolved …

Neoproterozoic marine carbonates and their paleoceanographic significance

A van Smeerdijk Hood, MW Wallace - Global and Planetary Change, 2018 - Elsevier
The primary mineralogy of marine carbonate precipitates has been a crucial factor in
constraining the major element composition of ancient oceans. Secular changes in …

Ca and Mg isotope constraints on the origin of Earth's deepest δ13C excursion

JM Husson, JA Higgins, AC Maloof… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
Understanding the extreme carbon isotope excursions found in carbonate rocks of the
Ediacaran Period (635–541 Ma), where δ 13 C of marine carbonates (δ 13 C carb) reach …

Origin of old saline groundwater in the deep coastal formations of the Atacama Desert region: Consideration of lithium, boron, strontium and uranium isotopes contents

C Herrera, L Godfrey, J Urrutia, E Custodio… - Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a multi-isotopic study to investigate the origin of saline groundwater in
the Cordillera de la Costa, in the arid Atacama Desert region in northern Chile …