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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Although Ce anomalies are commonly used to reconstruct past seawater redox conditions, published interpretations are based on various proxy materials and analytical approaches …
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 …