Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth's changing climate during the last 540 million years

CR Scotese, H Song, BJW Mills, DG van der Meer - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
This study provides a comprehensive and quantitative estimate of how global temperatures
have changed during the last 540 million years. It combines paleotemperature …

Snowballs in Africa: sectioning a long-lived Neoproterozoic carbonate platform and its bathyal foreslope (NW Namibia)

PF Hoffman, GP Halverson, DP Schrag, JA Higgins… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Otavi Group is a 1.5–3.5-km-thick epicontinental marine carbonate succession of
Neoproterozoic age, exposed in an 800-km-long Ediacaran− Cambrian fold belt that rims …

A high-resolution record of early Paleozoic climate

SL Goldberg, TM Present… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The spatial coverage and temporal resolution of the Early Paleozoic paleoclimate record are
limited, primarily due to the paucity of well-preserved skeletal material commonly used for …

Ocean temperatures through the Phanerozoic reassessed

EL Grossman, MM Joachimski - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The oxygen isotope compositions of carbonate and phosphatic fossils hold the key to
understanding Earth-system evolution during the last 500 million years. Unfortunately, the …

Limited Archaean continental emergence reflected in an early Archaean 18O-enriched ocean

BW Johnson, BA Wing - Nature Geoscience, 2020 - nature.com
The origin and evolution of Earth's biosphere were shaped by the physical and chemical
histories of the oceans. Marine chemical sediments and altered oceanic crust preserve a …

Global-scale emergence of continental crust during the Mesoarchean–early Neoarchean

W Wang, PA Cawood, CJ Spencer, MK Pandit… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The timing of the emergence of subaerial landmasses is equivocally constrained as post-
Archean and continues to be a much-debated issue. In this study, we document …

Oxygen isotope ensemble reveals Earth's seawater, temperature, and carbon cycle history

T Isson, S Rauzi - Science, 2024 - science.org
Earth's persistent habitability since the Archean remains poorly understood. Using an
oxygen isotope ensemble approach—comprising shale, iron oxide, carbonate, silica, and …

A CO2 greenhouse efficiently warmed the early Earth and decreased seawater 18O/16O before the onset of plate tectonics

D Herwartz, A Pack, TJ Nagel - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The low 18O/16O stable isotope ratios (δ18O) of ancient chemical sediments imply∼ 70° C
Archean oceans if the oxygen isotopic composition of seawater (sw) was similar to modern …

Ultramafic-hosted volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits: an overlooked sub-class of VMS deposit forming in complex tectonic environments

CGC Patten, R Coltat, M Junge, A Peillod, M Ulrich… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ongoing seafloor exploration highlights that ultramafic-hosted seafloor massive sulfide
deposits (UM-SMS) are ubiquitous along slow to ultra-slow spreading ridges. These …

Episodic magmatism during the growth of a Neoproterozoic oceanic arc (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)

A Triantafyllou, J Berger, JM Baele, N Mattielli… - Precambrian …, 2020 - Elsevier
We present an integrated study combining detailed field, geochronological and geochemical
data of a Neoproterozoic intra-oceanic arc systems exposed in the Pan-African belt of the …