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China Geology, 2020 : It has been an intense debate on the exact boundary between Ediacaran and Cambrian in the southwest Yangtze Block. The calibration of this critical boundary has a remarkable influence on the further investigation of the break-up of the Rodinia ...
Jun-ping Liu +10 more
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Sedimentology, Volume 73, Issue 4, Page 883-913, June 2026.ABSTRACT The c. 1 Ga Diabaig Formation of north‐west Scotland preserves diverse lacustrine and fluvial facies and abundant microbial and non‐microbial surficial sedimentary features. 172.6 m of section was logged across seven localities to assess the distribution of microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) relative to lithofacies, substrate ...
Seán T. Herron +2 more
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A tale of two microbialites: Stromatolites and microbially induced sedimentary structures
Sedimentology, Volume 73, Issue 4, Page 849-863, June 2026.ABSTRACT Microbialites are biosedimentary structures built by microbial mats. Five microbialite groups are distinguished: stromatolites, thrombolites, dendrolites, leiloites and microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS). This contribution discusses the two most abundant microbialite groups in marine settings, stromatolites and MISS.
Nora Noffke, Stanley M. Awramik
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Nature Communications, 2016 Macroscopic organisms are rare in the fossil record until the Ediacaran Period, beginning 635 million years ago. Here, Zhu et al. report the discovery of 1.56-billion-year-old carbonaceous compression fossils that provide evidence of the evolution of ...
Shixing Zhu +8 more
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Sedimentology, Volume 73, Issue 4, Page 914-944, June 2026.ABSTRACT Gas domes serve as some of the earliest and most persisting indicators of life on Earth, yet their documentation in continental environments remains sparse. This study aims to bridge this gap by examining gas domes within the Permian fluvial succession of Monte Luco, located in the caldera of the Bolzano Supervolcano. These structures occur as
Andrea Baucon +5 more
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Unusual occurrence of Cochlichnus in aeolian sandstones: evidence for a stiletto fly larval origin
Papers in Palaeontology, Volume 12, Issue 3, May/June 2026.Abstract Cochlichnus anguineus is an ichnotaxon recognized for its distinctive regular wavy morphology. It is a characteristic trace fossil typically associated with aquatic and marginal aquatic environments. However, in this study we examine its unusual occurrence in the aeolian sandstones of the Botucatu Formation (Lower Cretaceous, Paraná Basin ...
Bernardo de C. P. e M. Peixoto +8 more
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Macroevolution and macroecology through deep time
The fossil record documents two mutually exclusive macroevolutionary modes separated by the transitional Ediacaran Period. Despite the early appearance of crown eukaryotes and an at least partially oxygenated atmosphere, the pre-Ediacaran biosphere was ...
Butterfield, N. J.
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Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Volume 27, Issue 5, May 2026.Abstract After assembly, supercontinents are shaped by internal rifting and peripheral subduction. However, the geodynamic relationship between these two processes and their respective contributions to supercontinent breakup remain poorly understood.
Shipeng Liu +4 more
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Cryptic Paleomagnetic Complexity in the Ediacaran Egersund Dikes
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, Volume 27, Issue 5, May 2026.Abstract The Ediacaran Period (∼635–539 Ma) represents a critical interval in Earth's evolution, yet its paleomagnetic record remains complex and contentious. One of the few Ediacaran paleomagnetic results from Baltica considered robust is a pole from the ca.
Yi Xue +5 more
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Ediacaran ocean redox evolution
, 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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