Anomalous negative excursion of carbon isotope in organic carbon after the last Paleoproterozoic glaciation in North America [PDF]
, 2010 Early Paleoproterozoic time (2.5–2.0 Ga) spanned a critical phase in Earth's history, characterized by repeated glaciations and an increase in atmospheric oxygen (the Great Oxidation Event (GOE)).
Bekker +41 more
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Early Ediacaran collision zone (ca. 620 Ma) in Saudi Arabia and Yemen inferred from aeromagnetic mapping [PDF]
LithosphereThe tectonic terranes in the Proterozoic outcrops in Saudi Arabia are separated from those in Yemen by extensive regions that are covered by Phanerozoic sedimentary rocks and Tertiary volcanics.
Moujahed Al-Husseini, Ian C.F. Stewart
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Structural history of the southwestern corner of the Kaapvaal Craton and the adjacent Namaqua realm: new observations and a reappraisal [PDF]
, 1991 The rocks along the southwestern margin of the Kaapvaal Craton were deformed up to 7 times during the Early to Middle Proterozoic. The oldest deformation D1 is recorded in the N-S-trending Uitkoms cataclasite of pre-Makganyene age (>2.24 Ga) on the ...
Altermann, Wladyslaw, Hälbich, Ingo W.
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Enigmatic Mid‐Proterozoic Orogens: Hot, Thin, and Low
Geophysical Research Letters, 2021 Since the Archean, secular change in orogenic style is demonstrated through evolution of metamorphic conditions and geochemical proxies. Linked to orogenic style is the amount of crustal thickening and elevation, whereas orogenic vigor is related to the ...
Christopher J. Spencer +2 more
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Archean versus Phanerozoic oceanic crust formation and tectonics: Ophiolites through time
Geosystems and Geoenvironment, 2022 A global compilation of structural, lithological, and geochemical data on a selection of Archean, Proterozoic and Phanerozoic magmatic complexes, interpreted as ophiolites, is presented.
Harald Furnes, Yildirim Dilek
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Provenance and Paleogeography of the 25-17 Ma Rainbow Gardens Formation: Evidence for Tectonic Activity at Ca. 19 Ma and Internal Drainage rather than Throughgoing Paleorivers on the Southwestern Colorado Plateau [PDF]
, 2018 The paleogeographic evolution of the Lake Mead region of southern Nevada and northwest Arizona is crucial to understanding the geologic history of the U.S. Southwest, including the evolution of the Colorado Plateau and formation of the Grand Canyon.
Beard, L. Sue +9 more
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The Cambrian Explosion: macroevolution and biomineralization
Academia Biology, 2023 Recent advances in our understanding of the Cambrian evolutionary diversification event (Cambrian Explosion) show that, although eumetazoan stem taxa were present in the late Proterozoic, a tremendous burst of macroevolutionary change occurred near the ...
Mark A. S. McMenamin
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Deep lithospheric dynamics beneath the Sierra Nevada during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic as inferred from xenolith petrology [PDF]
, 2001 Peridotite xenoliths erupted in late Miocene basalts (~8 Ma) in the central Sierra Nevada sample a lithosphere that is vertically stratified in terms of age and thermal history.
Brimhall, George H., Jr. +2 more
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The laurentian record of neoproterozoic glaciation, tectonism, and eukaryotic evolution in Death Vally, California [PDF]
, 2013 Neoproterozoic strata in Death Valley, California contain eukaryotic microfossils and glacial deposits that have been used to assess the severity of putative Snowball Earth events and the biological response to extreme environmental change.
A. E. Fallick +62 more
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The early Proterozoic Saari-Kiekki greenstone belt: A representative of the Sariola Group at Kuhmo, Eastern Finland [PDF]
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Finland, 1989 The early Proterozoic Saari-Kiekki greenstone belt in Kuhmo, eastern Finland, is the deformed remnant of a NW‒SE-trending elongate structural basin c. 15 km long and up to 3 km wide.
E.J. Luukkonen
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