Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 1-26., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Richard E. Ernst +8 more
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Sequence stratigraphy in Proterozoic successions
Geology, 1988 Sedimentological logging and facies mapping have been used to identify depositional sequences bounded by subtle but regionally persistent unconformities in rocks of Proterozoic age in the western United States, South Australia, and northwestern Canada. We conclude from these studies that the sequence stratigraphic approach is of considerable importance
Christie-Blick, Nicholas +2 more
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Morphometric convergence between Proterozoic and post-vegetation rivers [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 It has been previously assumed that deep river channels could not have developed in the Proterozoic due to lack of vegetation. Here, the authors present remote sensing and outcrop data to show that large scale and deeply channelled river networks did ...
Alessandro Ielpi +3 more
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Precambrian glaciations and the evolution of the atmosphere [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 1994 Precambrian glaciations appear to be confined to two periods, one in the early Proterozoic between 2.5 and 2 Gyears BP (Before Present) and the other in the late Proterozoic between 1 and 0.57 Gyear BP. Possible reasons for these broad features of the
J. H. Carver, I. M. Vardavas
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On the ages of some granitoid and schist complexes in northern Finland [PDF]
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland, 1982 Contact observations and most radiometric datings indicate that the large complex of granitoid rocks and migmatites in Central Lapland is late Svecokarelian (Proterozoic) in age. The geological setting of the complex suggests, however, that it previously
R. Lauerma
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Earth's anomalous middle-age magmatism driven by plate slowdown
Scientific Reports, 2022 The mid-Proterozoic or "boring billion" exhibited extremely stable environmental conditions, with little change in atmospheric oxygen levels, and mildly oxygenated shallow oceans.
C. O’Neill +3 more
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Long-term memory of subduction processes in the lithospheric mantle: evidence from the geochemistry of basic dykes in the Gardar Province of South Greenland [PDF]
, 2002 The rift-related magmas of the Proterozoic Gardar Igneous Province were emplaced across the contact between the South Greenland Archaean craton and the Palaeoproterozoic Ketilidian mobile belt.
R. M. Ellam +6 more
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 137-165., 2020 This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Konstantin Litasov +3 more
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Not armour, but biomechanics, ecological opportunity and increased fecundity as keys to the origin and expansion of the mineralized benthic metazoan fauna [PDF]
, 2005 This paper offers a new biotic interaction hypothesis for the Cambrian 'explosion' of mineralized, benthic, metazoan diversity. It proposes that organic-mineral composite structures (e.g.
Cohen, B.L.
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A revision of the Proterozoic-Archean boundary of the Northern Bothnian schist belt with a discussion of the geochemistry of related basic metavolcanics [PDF]
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland, 1986 Geophysical analysis suggests the need for a revision of the eastern border of the early Proterozoic Northern Bothnian (or Kiiminki) schist belt. Recent geological field work has revealed places where the discordance and hiatus between Proterozoic and ...
Y. Kähkonen, E. Mattila, J. Nuutilainen
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