Onset of plate tectonics by the Eoarchean

BF Windley, T Kusky, A Polat - Precambrian Research, 2021 - Elsevier
One of the most contentious areas of Earth Science today is when, or whether or not modern-
style plate tectonics was in operation in the Archean Eon. In this review we present evidence …

Recognition of ocean plate stratigraphy in accretionary orogens through Earth history: A record of 3.8 billion years of sea floor spreading, subduction, and accretion

TM Kusky, BF Windley, I Safonova, K Wakita… - Gondwana …, 2013 - Elsevier
Ocean plate stratigraphy (OPS) is a term used to describe the sequence of sedimentary and
volcanic rocks deposited on oceanic crust substratum from the time it forms at a spreading …

[图书][B] Soils of the past: an introduction to paleopedology

GJ Retallack - 2008 - books.google.com
It has been 10 years since publication of the first edition ofSoils of the Past. In that time the
subject of paleopedology hasgrown rapidly, and established itself within the mainstream …

A non-marine depositional setting for the northern Fortescue Group, Pilbara Craton, inferred from trace element geochemistry of stromatolitic carbonates

R Bolhar, MJ Van Kranendonk - Precambrian Research, 2007 - Elsevier
The depositional environment of sedimentary rocks from the Neoarchaean Fortescue Group
(2.78–2.63 Ga) in the Hamersley Basin, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia, is controversial …

Metabolically diverse primordial microbial communities in Earth's oldest seafloor-hydrothermal jasper

D Papineau, Z She, MS Dodd, F Iacoviello, JF Slack… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The oldest putative fossils occur as hematite filaments and tubes in jasper-carbonate
banded iron formations from the 4280-to 3750-Ma Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt, Québec …

Volcanic degassing, hydrothermal circulation and the flourishing of early life on Earth: A review of the evidence from c. 3490-3240 Ma rocks of the Pilbara Supergroup …

MJ Van Kranendonk - Earth-Science Reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
New data gathered during mapping of c. 3490–3240 Ma rocks of the Pilbara Supergroup in
the Pilbara Craton show that most bedded chert units originated as epiclastic and …

Suboxic deep seawater in the late Paleoproterozoic: evidence from hematitic chert and iron formation related to seafloor-hydrothermal sulfide deposits, central Arizona …

JF Slack, T Grenne, A Bekker, OJ Rouxel… - Earth and Planetary …, 2007 - Elsevier
A current model for the evolution of Proterozoic deep seawater composition involves a
change from anoxic sulfide-free to sulfidic conditions 1.8 Ga. In an earlier model the deep …

Dating the oldest greenstone in India: a 3.51-Ga precise U-Pb SHRIMP zircon age for dacitic lava of the southern Iron Ore Group, Singhbhum craton

J Mukhopadhyay, NJ Beukes… - The Journal of …, 2008 - journals.uchicago.edu
This article reports a precise 3506.8±2.3-Ma U-Pb SHRIMP zircon age for dacitic lava in a
well-preserved low-grade metamorphic and low-strained greenstone belt succession of the …

[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 …

Petrology and geochemistry of the banded iron formation (BIF) of Wadi Karim and Um Anab, Eastern Desert, Egypt: implications for the origin of Neoproterozoic BIF

FF Basta, AE Maurice, L Fontboté, PY Favarger - Precambrian Research, 2011 - Elsevier
Banded iron formation (BIF) is exposed among the Precambrian rocks in the Wadi Karim
and Um Anab areas in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. The BIF conformably alternates with …