Iron formations: A global record of Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic environmental history

KO Konhauser, NJ Planavsky, DS Hardisty… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Iron formations (IF) represent an iron-rich rock type that typifies many Archaean and
Proterozoic supracrustal successions and are chemical archives of Precambrian seawater …

[HTML][HTML] Sources of bias in detrital zircon geochronology: Discordance, concealed lead loss and common lead correction

T Andersen, MA Elburg, BN Magwaza - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
The distribution pattern of U-Pb ages of detrital zircon in a sedimentary rock is commonly
assumed to reflect the ages of igneous or metamorphic processes in rocks that have …

Timing and tempo of the Great Oxidation Event

AP Gumsley, KR Chamberlain… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The first significant buildup in atmospheric oxygen, the Great Oxidation Event (GOE), began
in the early Paleoproterozoic in association with global glaciations and continued until the …

Rapid oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere 2.33 billion years ago

G Luo, S Ono, NJ Beukes, DT Wang, S Xie… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
Molecular oxygen (O2) is, and has been, a primary driver of biological evolution and shapes
the contemporary landscape of Earth's biogeochemical cycles. Although “whiffs” of oxygen …

Correlation of Paleoproterozoic glaciations based on U–Pb zircon ages for tuff beds in the Transvaal and Huronian Supergroups

B Rasmussen, A Bekker, IR Fletcher - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2013 - Elsevier
The rise in atmospheric oxygen between 2.45 and 2.2 Ga has been linked to the demise of a
methane-rich atmosphere and the onset of multiple glaciations, culminating in a possible …

Uranium in iron formations and the rise of atmospheric oxygen

CA Partin, SV Lalonde, NJ Planavsky, A Bekker… - Chemical …, 2013 - Elsevier
The concept of the Great Oxidation Event (GOE), during which atmospheric oxygen rose
precipitously and perhaps to near-modern levels around 2.4–2.1 billion years ago (Ga), has …

The Great Oxidation and a Siderian snowball Earth: MIF-S based correlation of Paleoproterozoic glacial epochs

PF Hoffman - Chemical Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
Existing correlation schemes between early Paleoproterozoic successions divorce the low-
latitude Makganyene glaciation in southern Africa from the Great Oxidation (GO), as …

Detrital zircon in an active sedimentary recycling system: Challenging the 'source‐to‐sink'approach to zircon‐based provenance analysis

T Andersen, H van Niekerk, MA Elburg - Sedimentology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The age and properties of detrital zircon in a sediment reflect properties of the rocks in which
the zircon crystallized, and not necessarily the immediate precursor of the host sediment …

[HTML][HTML] Improving the chronostratigraphic framework of the Transvaal Supergroup (South Africa) through in-situ and high-precision U-Pb geochronology

MH Senger, J Davies, M Ovtcharova, N Beukes… - Precambrian …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Transvaal Supergroup, on the Kaapvaal Craton in South Africa, is widely
accepted as one of the best-preserved sedimentary archives to constrain planetary-scale …

Correlation of the stratigraphic cover of the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons recording the lead up to Paleoproterozoic Icehouse and the GOE

A Bekker, B Krapež, JA Karhu - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Turee Creek Basin of the Pilbara Craton is critical for timing onset of the early
Paleoproterozoic Icehouse and the GOE. We establish correlation to the …