Glendonites throughout the Phanerozoic

M Rogov, V Ershova, C Gaina, O Vereshchagin… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ikaite is a metastable calcium carbonate hexahydrate (CaCO3· 6H2O), which naturally
occurs in environments characterized by temperatures of− 2 to+ 7° C. It is therefore …

The minerals ikaite and its pseudomorph glendonite: Historical perspective and legacies of Douglas Shearman and Alec K. Smith

B Schultz, N Thibault, J Huggett - Proceedings of the Geologists' …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents a historical perspective of the discovery of, and aspects of, glendonite
and ikaite, through the legacy of British mineralogists Douglas Shearman and Alec K. Smith …

Database of global glendonite and ikaite records throughout the Phanerozoic

M Rogov, V Ershova, O Vereshchagin… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
This database of Phanerozoic occurrences and isotopic characteristics of metastable cold-
water calcium carbonate hexahydrate (ikaite; CaCO 3· 6H 2 O) and their associated …

Possible bipolar global expression of the P3 and P4 glacial events of eastern Australia in the Northern Hemisphere: Marine diamictites and glendonites from the …

VI Davydov, IV Budnikov, RV Kutygin… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Three intervals of glaciomarine diamictites with extensive glendonites in middle to upper
Permian sediments were found in the Kobyume River, southern Verkhoyanie, Russia. The …

Ikaite nucleation at 35 C challenges the use of glendonite as a paleotemperature indicator

E Tollefsen, T Balic-Zunic, CM Mörth, V Brüchert… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Glendonites have been found worldwide in marine sediments from the Neoproterozoic Era
to the Quaternary Period. The precursor of glendonite, ikaite (CaCO3· 6H2O), is metastable …

Glendonite concretion formation due to dead organism decomposition

Y Muramiya, H Yoshida, M Minami, T Mikami… - Sedimentary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Glendonite is generally accepted as a calcite pseudomorph after ikaite (CaCO 3· 6H 2 O)
and is commonly preserved in spherical carbonate concretions known as glendonite …

[HTML][HTML] The mechanisms and stable isotope effects of transforming hydrated carbonate into calcite pseudomorphs

EL Scheller, M Ingalls, JM Eiler, JP Grotzinger… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Ikaite (CaCO 3· 6H 2 O) and monohydrocalcite (CaCO 3· H 2 O; MHC) are hydrated
carbonates that form at frigid (< 9° C) temperatures. During gradual heating and …

Unconformity-bounded rift sequences in Terreneuvian–Miaolingian strata of the Caledonian Highlands, Atlantic Canada

JJ Álvaro, SC Johnson, SM Barr, S Jensen… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Cambrian syn-rift strata preserved in western Avalonia provide a distinctive example of
how unconformity-bounded sequences are diachronous throughout proximal to marginal rift …

Redox-sensitive trace metal hyper-enrichment in Tremadocian Alum Shale (graptolite argillite) in northwestern Estonia, Baltic Palaeobasin

J Vind, S Ofili, K Mänd, A Soesoo, K Kirsimäe - Chemical Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Alum Shale Formation, a widespread metal-rich black shale in Baltoscandia,
was deposited during the Cambrian–Ordovician transition. Given that it straddles a period of …

Guttulatic calcite: A carbonate microtexture that reveals frigid formation conditions

EL Scheller, J Grotzinger, M Ingalls - Geology, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The paragenesis of carbonate pseudomorphic textures in the rock record that are inferred to
represent replaced metastable ikaite (CaCO3· 6H2O), which forms at frigid temperatures, is …