Earth's clay mineral inventory and its climate interaction: A quantitative assessment

LN Warr - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Much work has been undertaken quantifying the abundance of phyllosilicate clay minerals
in soils, sediments and rocks of Earth's crust. However, no detailed global compilation of …

Potential, premises, and pitfalls of interpreting illite argon dates-A case study from the German Variscides

M Hueck, K Wemmer, AK Ksienzyk, R Kuehn… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract K-Ar and Ar/Ar illite geochronology are powerful and versatile tools that can be
used to provide age constraints on diverse geological processes such as diagenesis …

[HTML][HTML] Raman microspectroscopy, bitumen reflectance and illite crystallinity scale: comparison of different geothermometry methods on fossiliferous Proterozoic …

BK Baludikay, C François, MC Sforna, J Beghin… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Sedimentary rocks containing microfossils are crucial archives to reconstitute early life
evolution on Earth. However, the preservation of microfossils within rocks depends on …

Vitrinite and vitrinite like solid bitumen reflectance in thermal maturity studies: Correlations from diagenesis to incipient metamorphism in different geodynamic settings

RF Maehlmann, R Le Bayon - International Journal of Coal Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
Vitrinite reflectance (VR) is a useful and reliable parameter to monitor the level of organic
matter maturation from the immature stage to graphite. Additionally, VR is a useful and …

Provenance of Devonian–carboniferous sedimentary rocks of the Tarija Basin, southern Bolivia: Implications for the geodynamic evolution of the southwestern margin …

AG Zavaleta, N Hauser, M Roddaz… - …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The western margin of SW Gondwana was a place of active convergence between the
Gondwana shield and the oceanic lithosphere of the Panthalassa Ocean during most of the …

Expedition 349 summary

CF Li, J Lin, DK Kulhanek, T Williams, R Bao, A Briais… - 2015 - boris.unibe.ch
C.-F. Li, J. Lin, DK Kulhanek, T. Williams, R. Bao, A. Briais, EA Brown, Y. Chen, PD Clift, FS
Colwell, KA Dadd, W.-W. Ding, I. Hernández-Almeida, X.-L. Huang, S. Hyun, T. Jiang, AAP …

Early Paleozoic structural and metamorphic evolution of the Transpatagonian Orogen related to Gondwana assembly

PD González, M Naipauer, AM Sato, R Varela… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
The temporal and spatial relationships between polyphase folding and faulting, regional
metamorphism, and granitoids intrusions are discussed for the low-grade basement rocks of …

Metamorphic Domes in Northern Tunisia: Exhuming the Roots of Nappe Belts by Widespread Post‐Subduction Delamination in the Western Mediterranean

G Booth Rea, S Gaidi, F Melki, W Marzougui… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cenozoic extension in the Western Mediterranean has been related to the dynamics of back‐
arc domains. Although, in most of its orogenic belts extension propagated into the fore‐arc …

Expedition 385 summary

A Teske, D Lizarralde, TW Höfig, IW Aiello… - … Basin Tectonics and …, 2021 - hal.science
1. Abstract International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 385 drilled organic-rich
sediments and intruded sills in the off-axis region and axial graben of the northern spreading …

Boron paleosalinity proxy for deeply buried Paleozoic and Ediacaran fossils

G Retallack - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2020 - Elsevier
Boron content is an indicator of paleosalinity for Mesozoic and Cenozoic clayey sediments,
but is compromised by clay diagenesis in deeply-buried sediments of Paleozoic and …