Searching for biosignatures in sedimentary rocks from early Earth and Mars

T Bosak, KR Moore, J Gong… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
The recognition of past habitable environments on Mars has increased the urgency to
understand biosignature preservation in and characterize analogues of these environments …

Holocene stable isotope record of insolation and rapid climate change in a stalagmite from the Zagros of Iran

JE Andrews, SA Carolin, EN Peckover, A Marca… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
We explore Holocene climatic changes recorded by geochemical proxies in a single, well-
dated, stalagmite from the northern Zagros Mountains of Iran, a region where stalagmite …

Tectono‐sedimentary evolution of the Plio‐Pleistocene Corinth rift, Greece

RL Gawthorpe, MR Leeder, H Kranis, E Skourtsos… - Basin …, 2018 - earthdoc.org
The onshore central Corinth rift contains a syn‐rift succession> 3 km thick deposited in 5–15
km‐wide tilt blocks, all now inactive, uplifted and deeply incised. This part of the rift records …

Searching for travertines, calcretes and speleothems in deep time: Processes, appearances, predictions and the impact of plants

AT Brasier - Earth-Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Common models for modern calcite precipitation in and around caves, soils, springs and
streams involve CO2 supplied by thick, high pCO2 biogenic soils which were probably thin …

Precipitation of carbonate minerals in travertine-depositing hot springs: Driving forces, microenvironments, and mechanisms

L Luo, E Capezzuoli, M Rogerson, O Vaselli, H Wen… - Sedimentary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Travertine-depositing hot springs can generate various carbonate minerals with or without
the participation of microorganisms. They thus serve as good natural laboratories to study …

Intrinsic and extrinsic controls of spatial and temporal variations in modern fluvial tufa sedimentation: A thirteen‐year record from a semi‐arid environment

C Arenas, M Vázquez‐Urbez, L Auque… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Sedimentological and hydrochemical parameters of the River Piedra (north‐east Spain)
were monitored every six months (from 1999 to 2012) at 24 sites, at which tablets were …

Laminated carbonate deposits in Roman aqueducts: Origin, processes and implications

G Sürmelihindi, CW Passchier, C Spötl… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Carbonate deposits in Roman aqueducts of Patara and Aspendos (southern Turkey) were
studied to analyse the nature of their regular layering. Optical microscopy and electron …

A complete Holocene climate and environment record for the Western Carpathians (Slovakia) derived from a tufa deposit

J Dabkowski, J Frodlová, M Hájek, P Hájková… - The …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Calcareous tufas are great archives of geochemical information for the reconstruction of past
climate. Their importance increases in the regions where other proxies are rare, such as …

Evolutionary trends in remarkable fossil preservation across the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition and the impact of metazoan mixing

MD Brasier, JB Antcliffe, RHT Callow - Taphonomy: Process and bias …, 2011 - Springer
A unifying model is presented that explains most of the major changes seen in fossil
preservation and redox conditions across the Precambrian–Cambrian transition. It is …

Wet-dry seasonal variations of hydrochemistry and carbonate precipitation rates in a travertine-depositing canal at Baishuitai, Yunnan, SW China: implications for the …

Z Liu, H Sun, L Baoying, L Xiangling, Y Wenbing… - Chemical …, 2010 - Elsevier
Biannually laminated freshwater carbonate deposits (tufas and travertines) are potential
sources of high-resolution terrestrial paleoclimate data. In order to understand the processes …