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Linking Tectonics and Cratonic Vertical Motions: Deep‐Time Thermochronology Reveals >1,000 Myr of Low‐Temperature Conditions in Southeastern Finland

open access: yesTectonics, Volume 45, Issue 9, September 2026.
Abstract The Fennoscandian Shield potentially hosts the longest continuous habitable conditions for Earth's deep biosphere. Billion‐year equilibrium freeboard conditions of cratons and the longevity of deep biosphere microbial communities are directly related through the thermal histories of rocks that host these communities.
Josh Isaacs   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Ediacaran Biotas in Space and Time [PDF]

open access: yesIntegrative and Comparative Biology, 2003
The "Ediacaran organisms," which preceded and overlapped the Cambrian radiation of metazoans, include many fossils whose systematic positions remain contentious after over fifty years of study. It might seem that nothing particularly useful can be learned from a biota full of oddballs. However, analyses of the distribution of the Ediacaran organisms in
openaire   +2 more sources

Ediacaran fossils from the Sonia Sandstone, Jodhpur Group, India: New discoveries and interpretations

open access: yesJournal of the Palaeontological Society of India
The Sonia Sandstone of the Jodhpur Group, Marwar Supergroup in western Rajasthan, has unveiled many fossil assemblages, significantly advancing our comprehension of the Ediacaran biotic diversity and palaeoecological dynamics.
S. AHMAD, S. K. PANDEY
doaj   +1 more source

Evolution: The Making of Ediacaran Giants [PDF]

open access: yesCurrent Biology, 2014
Some of the enigmatic Precambrian organisms in the Ediacaran Period grew large and stood tall above the seafloor. Canopy flow modeling suggests that their large size was optimized for access to flow in order to facilitate osmotrophic nutrient uptake in low-flow environments.
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Ediacaran ocean redox evolution

open access: yes, 2015
The relative role that environmental versus intrinsic biological factors played in shaping the history of life on Earth is a fundamental but unanswered question in the natural sciences.
Sahoo, Swapan Kumar
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Framboidal pyrite shroud confirms the ‘death mask' model for moldic preservation of ediacaran soft-bodied organism

open access: yes
The mechanisms by which soft-bodied organisms were preserved in late Ediacaran deep-marine environments are revealed by petrographic and geochemical investigation of fossil-bearing surfaces from the Conception and St. John's groups (Newfoundland, Canada).
Liu, Alexander G.
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Ediacaran Doushantuo-type biota discovered in Laurentia

open access: yes, 2020
The Ediacaran period (635-541 Ma) was a time of major environmental change, accompanied by a transition from a microbial world to the animal world we know today. Multicellular, macroscopic organisms preserved as casts and molds in Ediacaran siliciclastic
Schovsbo, Niels H.   +11 more
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Ediacaran diversity in space and time [PDF]

open access: yes
The Ediacaran Subcommission of the International Commission on Stratigraphy is diligently working toward the goal of subdividing the Ediacaran Period into precise and useful chronostratigraphic units.

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Scratch circles from the Ediacaran and Cambrian of Arctic Norway and southern Africa, with a review of scratch circle occurrences [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Scratch circles—bedding plane parallel sedimentary structures formed by the passive rotation of a tethered organism into the surrounding sediment—are relatively rare in the geological record. Here new occurrences of scratch circles are described from the

core   +1 more source

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