The rise and fall of stromatolites in shallow marine environments

SE Peters, JM Husson, J Wilcots - Geology, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Stromatolites are abundant in shallow marine sediments deposited before the evolution of
animals, but in the modern ocean they are restricted to locations where the activity of …

Diagenetic and hydrothermal events revealed by an Ediacaran dolomite breccia from the Araras-Alto Paraguai basin, southern Amazon Craton

LF Sepeda, ACR Nogueira, RF dos Santos… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2024 - Elsevier
The establishment of extensive carbonate platforms characterized the Ediacaran period
during CaCO3 oversaturation events and the exceptional creation of accommodation space …

Diagenesis of the Marinoan cap dolostone, Southern Amazon Craton: An unconventional petroleum system in the evolution of the Araras-Alto Paraguai Basin

RF dos Santos, ACR Nogueira, JB da Costa… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2023 - Elsevier
The post-snowball Earth world favors the development of hydrocarbon source rock
intimately linked to periods of post-glacial marine transgression generating important …

Ediacaran-Cambrian microbialites of the Southern Amazon Craton: relation with the metazoan rise, sea-level changes, and global tectonics

ACR Nogueira, RF Santos, GR Romero… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
Microbialites are the most abundant life evidence in Precambrian sedimentary rocks. They
are produced by microbial interaction activity and sedimentary processes reflecting …

The Cryogenian‐Ediacaran Boundary in the Southern Amazon Craton

ACR Nogueira, GR Romero… - Chemostratigraphy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The southern margin of the Amazon Craton is an important area regarding evidences of
Neoproterozoic snowball Earth glaciations. Four outcrops of cap carbonate overlying …

Tubestone microbialite association in the Ediacaran cap carbonates in the southern Paraguay Fold Belt (SW Brazil): geobiological and stratigraphic implications for a …

GR Romero, EAM Sanchez, L Morais… - Journal of South …, 2016 - Elsevier
The restriction of tubestone structures tomicrobialitic laminites in cap carbonates associated
with the Marinoan glacial event in North and South America, Namibia, Australia and Oman …

Microfacies, diagenesis and hydrocarbon potential of the Neoproterozoic cap carbonate of the southern Amazon Craton

JL Soares, ACR Nogueira, RF dos Santos… - Sedimentary …, 2020 - Elsevier
The low-latitude Marinoan glaciation (635 Ma) record in the southern Amazon Craton has
been one of the most important sites with strong evidence for the Neoproterozoic Snowball …

Waxing and waning of microbial laminites in the aftermath of the Marinoan glaciation at the margin of the Amazon Craton (Brazil)

GR Romero, EAM Sanchez, JL Soares… - Precambrian …, 2020 - Elsevier
At the margin of the Amazon Craton (west-central Brazil), the Mirassol D'Oeste Formation
comprises an emblematic, 16 m-thick Marinoan cap dolostone deposited directly upon …

High frequency peritidal cycles of the upper Araras Group: Implications for disappearance of the Neoproterozoic carbonate platform in southern Amazon Craton

ID Rudnitzki, GR Romero, R Hidalgo… - Journal of South …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Araras Group is an extensive carbonate platform developed at the
southeastern margin of the Amazon Craton during the Neoproterozoic. The Nobres …

Peritidal microbialites in the upper Araras Group: Morphotypes, potential preservation and the relation with the Ediacaran-Cambrian unconformity in the Araras-Alto …

GR Romero, RF dos Santos, ACR Nogueira… - Journal of South …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Proterozoic biosphere was dominated by shallow-marine and intertidal bacterial biota,
as evident from a robust record of microbialites in carbonate rocks. The lower Ediacaran …