Secular evolution of continents and the Earth system

PA Cawood, P Chowdhury, JA Mulder… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding of secular evolution of the Earth system is based largely on the rock and
mineral archive preserved in the continental lithosphere. Based on the frequency and range …

[HTML][HTML] Epochs, events and episodes: Marking the geological impact of humans

CN Waters, M Williams, J Zalasiewicz, SD Turner… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Event stratigraphy is used to help characterise the Anthropocene as a chronostratigraphic
concept, based on analogous deep-time events, for which we provide a novel …

The proposed Anthropocene Epoch/Series is underpinned by an extensive array of mid‐20th century stratigraphic event signals

MJ Head, JA Zalasiewicz, CN Waters… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The extensive array of mid‐20th century stratigraphic event signals associated with the
'Great Acceleration'enables precise and unambiguous recognition of the Anthropocene as …

The Anthropocene is a prospective epoch/series, not a geological event

MJ Head, JA Zalasiewicz, CN Waters, SD Turner… - Episodes, 2022 - repository.si.edu
The late Paul Crutzen conceptualized the Anthropocene as an interval when humans
became the dominant geological/Earth System force on Earth, justifying it as a new …

[HTML][HTML] Sedimentary Ce anomalies: Secular change and implications for paleoenvironmental evolution

K Zhang, GA Shields - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Although Ce anomalies are commonly used to reconstruct past seawater redox conditions,
published interpretations are based on various proxy materials and analytical approaches …

Mantle plume-triggered rifting closely following Neoarchean cratonization revealed by 2.50–2.20 Ga magmatism across North China Craton

Y Zhou, M Zhai - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The Earth experienced fundamental tectonic transformation and paleoclimatic upheavals
during the early Paleoproterozoic (2.50–2.20 Ga). However, the tectonic framework of this …

Precise U-Pb age models refine Neoproterozoic western Laurentian rift initiation, correlation, and Earth system changes

C Dehler, M Schmitz, A Bullard, S Porter… - Precambrian …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The upper Tonian ChUMP (Chuar-Uinta Mountains-Pahrump) strata of the
southwestern USA are hypothesized to be regional correlatives and to record a time of rift …

[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 …

Two karst events bounding drastic changes in the Neoproterozoic Tandilia Basin history, Argentina: paleogeographic relevance

LE Gómez-Peral, MJ Arrouy, MS Raigemborn… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
The sedimentary infill of the Tandilia Basin is characterised by at least four different stages of
deposition during the Neoproterozoic (< 1160 to~ 550 Ma), two of them recognisable in the …

[HTML][HTML] A proposed chronostratigraphic Archean–Proterozoic boundary: Insights from the Australian stratigraphic record

DMB Martin, I Mukherjee, AJ McCoy-West… - Precambrian …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mount Bruce Supergroup (MBS) in Western Australia has been central to
debates surrounding Precambrian stratigraphic subdivision and is one of the few relatively …