Ice-rafted dropstones at midlatitudes in the Cretaceous of continental Iberia

JP Rodríguez-López, CL Liesa, A Luzón… - …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Cretaceous is widely considered to have been a period subjected to super-greenhouse
conditions. Here, we provide multiscale sedimentologic evidence of glaciers developing at …

Reassessing a glacial landscape developed during terminal glaciation of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age in Uruguay

JL Isbell, ND Fedorchuk, ELM Rosa, C Goso… - Sedimentary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Whalebacks, roche moutonnées, and S-forms carved on Ediacaran granitoids near Cerro de
las Cuentas, Uruguay, along with overlying diamictites, siltstones, and sandstones …

A Carboniferous apex for the late Paleozoic icehouse

N Griffis, R Mundil, I Montanez, D Le Heron, P Dietrich… - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Icehouse climate systems occur across an abbreviated portion of Earth history, constituting
c. 25% of the Phanerozoic record. The Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA) was the most extreme …

[HTML][HTML] The Ordovician strata of the Ennedi Plateau, northeastern Chad (Erdi Basin)

JF Ghienne, A Moussa, A Saad… - Comptes …, 2023 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
In the Ennedi Plateau, northeastern Chad, Cambrian (?)–Ordovician to Carboniferous strata
represent one of the most proximal succession of the north-facing Gondwana platform. This …

Dust and loess as archives and agents of climate and climate change in the late Paleozoic Earth system

GS Soreghan, NG Heavens, LS Pfeifer, MJ Soreghan - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Palaeo-loess and silty aeolian-marine strata are well recognized across the Carboniferous–
Permian of equatorial Pangaea. Aeolian-transported dust and loess appear in the Late …

[HTML][HTML] Chad's cabinet of icy curiosities: Sharpening the interpretation of subglacial and ice marginal environments during the LPIA glaciation of the Ennedi Plateau

R Wohlschlägl, C Kettler, DP Le Heron, A Zboray - Sedimentary Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ennedi Plateau in Chad in north-central Africa exposes an outstanding
example of a palaeo-ice stream glacial landsystem of late Palaeozoic age, with an …

A grounding zone wedge origin for the Palaeoproterozoic Makganyene Formation of South Africa

DP Le Heron, ME Busfield, AJB Smith… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Makganyene Formation is a Siderian (2.45–2.22 Ga) diamictite-dominated succession,
with both outcrop and subcrop in the Griqualand West Basin of the Transvaal Group of South …

Glacial erosion on a snowball Earth: testing for bias in flux balance, geographic setting, and tectonic regime

PF Hoffman - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
On the southwest cape of the Congo craton, a subtropical carbonate bank the size of
Greenland was heavily glaciated during two Cryogenian panglacial episodes spaced 10–20 …

[HTML][HTML] Decoding the late Palaeozoic glaciated landscape of Namibia: A photogrammetric journey

DP Le Heron, C Kettler, P Dietrich, N Griffis… - Sedimentary …, 2024 - Elsevier
The geometry of unconformities carved by deep time ice sheets is often obscured and
restricted by discontinuous exposure, or outcrop conditions that do not readily permit the …

[PDF][PDF] Comptes Rendus Géoscience

JF Ghienne, A Moussa, A Saad, B Djatibeye… - Géoscience, 2023 - academia.edu
In the Ennedi Plateau, northeastern Chad, Cambrian (?)–Ordovician to Carboniferous strata
represent one of the most proximal succession of the north-facing Gondwana platform. This …