Tectono-stratigraphic framework of Neoproterozoic to Cambrian strata, west-central US: Protracted rifting, glaciation, and evolution of the North American Cordilleran …

WA Yonkee, CD Dehler, PK Link, EA Balgord… - Earth-Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Stratigraphic, geochronologic, and geochemical patterns of Neoproterozoic to Cambrian
sedimentary and volcanic rocks in Utah, Nevada, and SE Idaho record a dynamically …

The links between Neoproterozoic tectonics, paleoenvironment and Cambrian explosion in the Yangtze Block, China

Y Dong, B Hui, S Sun, J Sun, R Zang, B Zhang… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The correlation between Neoproterozoic tectonics, paleoenvironment and early life are
crucial for understanding the evolution of the Earth's habitability. The Yangtze Block …

Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

PF Hoffman, DS Abbot, Y Ashkenazy, DI Benn… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Geological evidence indicates that grounded ice sheets reached sea level at all latitudes
during two long-lived Cryogenian (58 and≥ 5 My) glaciations. Combined uranium-lead and …

Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: a synthesis

ZX Li, SV Bogdanova, AS Collins, A Davidson… - Precambrian …, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper presents a brief synthesis of the current state of knowledge on the formation and
break-up of the early-Neoproterozoic supercontinent Rodinia, and the subsequent assembly …

The geologic time scale

FM Gradstein, JG Ogg, MD Schmitz, GM Ogg - Boston, USA, 2012 - books.google.com
Construction and assembly of the Geologic Time Scale involves:(a) constructing a relative
(chronostratigraphic) standard scale for key periods in the Earth's rock record;(b) identifying …

Calibrating the cryogenian

FA Macdonald, MD Schmitz, JL Crowley, CF Roots… - science, 2010 - science.org
The Neoproterozoic was an era of great environmental and biological change, but a paucity
of direct and precise age constraints on strata from this time has prevented the complete …

Toward a Neoproterozoic composite carbon-isotope record

GP Halverson, PF Hoffman… - Geological …, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Glacial deposits of Sturtian and Marinoan age occur in the well-studied Neoproterozoic
successions of northern Namibia, South Australia, and northwestern Canada. In all three …

[PDF][PDF] Geochronologic constraints on the chronostratigraphic framework of the Neoproterozoic Huqf Supergroup, Sultanate of Oman

SA Bowring, JP Grotzinger, DJ Condon… - American Journal of …, 2007 - ajsonline.org
The Huqf Supergroup, Sultanate of Oman, contains an important record of Neoproterozoic
history, including evidence for two glaciations, a massive reorganization of the global carbon …

Re-Os geochronology and coupled Os-Sr isotope constraints on the Sturtian snowball Earth

AD Rooney, FA Macdonald… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
After nearly a billion years with no evidence for glaciation, ice advanced to equatorial
latitudes at least twice between 717 and 635 Mya. Although the initiation mechanism of …

A palaeogeographic context for Neoproterozoic glaciation

PF Hoffman, ZX Li - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2009 - Elsevier
The distributions of 77 Neoproterozoic glacigenic formations are shown on global
palaeogeographic maps for 715 Ma (Sturtian), 635 Ma (Marinoan) and 580 Ma (Ediacaran) …