[HTML][HTML] Glaciation-induced features or sediment gravity flows–an analytic review

MO Molén - Journal of Palaeogeography, 2023 - Elsevier
For more than 150 years, geologic characteristics claimed to be evidence for pre-
Pleistocene glaciations have been debated. Advancements in recent decades, in …

[HTML][HTML] Geochemical proxies: Paleoclimate or paleoenvironment?

MO Molén - Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 2024 - Elsevier
Complications of interpretations of geochemical proxies used for paleoclimatic
constructions, including proxies which may be interpreted as evidence of former glaciations …

Goldilocks at the dawn of complex life: mountains might have damaged Ediacaran–Cambrian ecosystems and prompted an early Cambrian greenhouse world

F Caxito, C Lana, R Frei, GJ Uhlein, AN Sial… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
We combine U–Pb in-situ carbonate dating, elemental and isotope constraints to calibrate
the synergy of integrated mountain-basin evolution in western Gondwana. We show that …

Global or regional? Constraining the origins of the middle Bambuí carbon cycle anomaly in Brazil

H Cui, LV Warren, GJ Uhlein, J Okubo, XM Liu… - Precambrian …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran-Cambrian Bambuí Group in Brazil records an anomalously positive
excursion in carbonate carbon isotopes (δ 13 C carb) with a sustained plateau of ca.+ …

Carbon isotope evidence for large methane emissions to the Proterozoic atmosphere

P Cadeau, D Jézéquel, C Leboulanger, E Fouilland… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Proterozoic Era records two periods of abundant positive carbon isotope
excursions (CIEs), conventionally interpreted as resulting from increased organic carbon …

Treptichnus pedum in the Três Marias Formation, south-central Brazil, and its implications for the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition in South America

EAM Sanchez, A Uhlein, TR Fairchild - Journal of South American Earth …, 2021 - Elsevier
The index ichnofossil Treptichnus pedum Seilacher 1955 and four types of Microbially
Induced Sedimentary Structures (MISS)-variants of wrinkle and elephant skin structures–are …

Sequence stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental significance of the Neoproterozoic Bambui Group, Central Brazil

LG DaSilva, PK Pufahl, NP James, EM Guimaraes… - Precambrian …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Bambui Group is a ca. 2,000 m-thick mixed biochemical-siliciclastic
sedimentary succession that accumulated in the Sao Francisco Basin, central Brazil. Its age …

The Ediacaran paleontological record in South America

LV Warren, B Becker-Kerber, L Inglez, FG Varejão… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
South America figures as one of the most fruitful continents for paleontological research on
the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition, with almost 100 years of studies on organisms …

Multiple sulfur isotopes and stratigraphic constraints for the 34S enrichments in the late Ediacaran-Cambrian pyrite-sulfur record: A product of supercontinent …

S Caetano-Filho, P Sansjofre, GM Paula-Santos… - Gondwana …, 2024 - Elsevier
The late Ediacaran record encompasses frequent occurrences of 34 S-enriched pyrites,
which can surpass the coexisting sulfate isotope values. Deciphering what controls this …

The sulfur isotopic consequence of seawater sulfate distillation preserved in the Neoproterozoic Sete Lagoas post-glacial carbonate, eastern Brazil

J Okubo, AJ Kaufman, LV Warren… - Journal of the …, 2022 - lyellcollection.org
Since the report of tubular structures interpreted as Cloudina from the Neoproterozoic Sete
Lagoas Formation (SLF) in the Bambuí basin of eastern Brazil, this stratigraphic unit has …