Carbonate minerals have precipitated from seawater for at least the last 3.8 billion years, but
changes in the physical and chemical properties of carbonate rocks demonstrate that the …

Cathodoluminescence petrography (CL) is an invaluable tool for distinguishing detrital,
authigenic and diagenetic phases, and porosity evolution in sedimentary rocks. In clastic …

This chapter focuses almost exclusively on marine evaporites and in particular on how the
chemistry of seawater is reflected in the mineralogy and facies distribution of deposits in …

Stromatolites are abundant in shallow marine sediments deposited before the evolution of
animals, but in the modern ocean they are restricted to locations where the activity of …

Evidence in palaeosols suggests that life on land dates back to at least 2.76 Gyr ago,.
However, the biogeochemical effects of Archaean terrestrial life are thought to have been …

Analysis of the synsedimentary diagenetic phases from a pervasively dolomitised
Cryogenian (~ 650Ma) reef complex, South Australia reveals a fundamentally different style …

The ephemeral nature of most sedimentation processes and the fragmentary character of
the sedimentary record are of first-order importance. Despite a basic uniformity of external …

Abstract The Neoproterozoic Sete Lagoas Formation (ca 610 Ma) of the São Francisco
Basin, Brazil, is a succession of siltstone, limestone and phosphorite. Phosphorite forms part …

The post-snowball Earth world favors the development of hydrocarbon source rock
intimately linked to periods of post-glacial marine transgression generating important …

The Paleoproterozoic Mârmorilik Formation in the Karrat basin of West Greenland hosts the
Black Angel Zn–Pb deposit. Chlorine-rich scapolite, zones with vuggy porosity and quartz …