Over the past decades, the burial realm, the most prolonged and arguably the least well‐
understood diagenetic environment, has received significant research attention. Despite …

Orogenic forelands host interactions between deformation and static or migrating fluids.
Given their accessibility and dimensions, these areas are not only historic landmarks for …

Abstract The Nama Group exposed on the Neint Nababeep Plateau along the Orange River
in northwestern Republic of South Africa is now recognized as an expanded record of the …

The primary mineralogy of marine carbonates has varied over geological time in concert
with the secular evolution of global climate and seawater chemistry. Here, we employed a …

The terminal Ediacaran interval from~ 550 Ma to 541 Ma witnessed the first appearance of
skeletal metazoans and complex ecosystems in Earth history. This biotic innovation event is …

Abstract The Ediacaran Period includes critical evolutionary trends of early complex life as
well as climatic variations associated with ocean oxygenation, glaciations, and carbon …

Precise measurements of the calcium (Ca) isotopes have provided constraints on Ca cycling
at global and local scales, and quantified rates of carbonate diagenesis in marine …

Abstract The Lower Cretaceous Tengger Formation located in the Baiyinchagan Sag of the
Erlian Basin comprises mainly deeply buried tight sandstone. The identification of high …

Although life on Earth evolved in the Archean, complex hard bodied animals only emerged
in shallow marine environments during the late Ediacaran (~ 550 Ma). The trigger for the …

Microbialites are the fossilised traces of microbial communities and are present in the rock
record since the Paleoarchean, 3.5 billion years ago, making microbialites some of the …