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Paleomagnetic Constraints on the Separation of the Olongbuluke Block From the North China Block During the Late Cambrian–Middle Ordovician and Its Tectonic Significance

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 13, 16 July 2026.
Abstract The collisional evolution of the micro‐blocks in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau is relatively well constrained. However, the reason why a fragment of the North China Block, the Olongbuluke Block, became separated from North China by the Central Qilian Block (a fragment of the South China Block) remains unclear.
Teng Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dark Land Surfaces Allow for Refugia That Could Support Photosynthetic Life on the Surface of Snowball Earth

open access: yesJournal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, Volume 131, Issue 13, 16 July 2026.
Abstract Photosynthetic eukaryotic algae survived the Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth events, indicating that liquid‐water refugia existed somewhere on the surface. We examine the potential for refugia at the coldest time of a snowball event, before CO2 had risen and with high‐albedo ice on the frozen ocean, before it became darkened by dust deposition ...
Greta E. M. Shum   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Molar tooth carbonates and benthic methane fluxes in Proterozoic oceans

open access: yesNature Communications, 2016
Molar tooth structures are common in early- to mid-Proterozoic carbonates but extremely rare in rocks younger than 750 Ma. Here, the authors show molar tooth carbonate formation is related to benthic methane fluxes.
Bing Shen   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Paleosecular Variation Constraints on Geomagnetic Field Morphology at ca. 1100 Ma

open access: yesGeophysical Research Letters, Volume 53, Issue 13, 16 July 2026.
Abstract Paleosecular variation provides a statistical test of long‐term geomagnetic field morphology, but its behavior across Precambrian polarity regimes remains poorly constrained. We compile a virtual geomagnetic pole dispersion data set spanning 1130–1070 Ma and apply nonlinear Model G fitting to evaluate field structure across the interval ...
Hanqing Zhao   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geochemical environments of the Archean-Proterozoic

open access: yesДоклады Академии наук, 2019
In the Precambrian section, there is a change of Archean calcite carbonate rocks to magnesia and ferrous in the Proterozoic. This is correlated with the massive development of cyanobacteria, the absorption of which carbon dioxide and the generation of oxygen, led to a change in the acidic reduction conditions of Archaean alkaline oxidizing in the ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Precambrian glaciations and the evolution of the atmosphere

open access: yesAnnales Geophysicae
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.
J. H. Carver, I. M. Vardavas
doaj  

Proterozoic Basins of Peninsular India: Status within the Global Proterozoic Systems

open access: yesProceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, 2016
This compilation is intended to present a snap-shot of the current status of the knowledge on the Proterozoic sediments and tectonic events that are preserved in Peninsular India; on the backdrop of the growing understanding of global events and environmental evolution during that period.
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