Neoproterozoic glaciations in a revised global palaeogeography from the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Gondwanaland

ZX Li, DAD Evans, GP Halverson - Sedimentary Geology, 2013 - Elsevier
This review paper presents a set of revised global palaeogeographic maps for the 825–540
Ma interval using the latest palaeomagnetic data, along with lithological information for …

[HTML][HTML] On the origins of the Iapetus Ocean

B Robert, M Domeier, J Jakob - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Iapetus Ocean opened during the fission of the supercontinent Rodinia, from
the breakup of three of its core continental constituents: Laurentia, Baltica and Amazonia …

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 …

Dodging snowballs: Geochronology of the Gaskiers glaciation and the first appearance of the Ediacaran biota

JP Pu, SA Bowring, J Ramezani, P Myrow… - …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The snowball Earth hypothesis predicts that low-latitude glaciation lasted millions of years
while CO2 built up to critical levels to culminate in catastrophic deglaciation in a …

Snowballs in Africa: sectioning a long-lived Neoproterozoic carbonate platform and its bathyal foreslope (NW Namibia)

PF Hoffman, GP Halverson, DP Schrag, JA Higgins… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Otavi Group is a 1.5–3.5-km-thick epicontinental marine carbonate succession of
Neoproterozoic age, exposed in an 800-km-long Ediacaran− Cambrian fold belt that rims …

Neoproterozoic paleogeography of the Tarim Block: An extended or alternative “missing-link” model for Rodinia?

B Wen, DAD Evans, YX Li - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent reconstructions of the Rodinia supercontinent and its breakup incorporate South
China as a “missing link” between Australia and Laurentia, and place the Tarim craton …

Cryogenian of Yukon

FA Macdonald, MD Schmitz, JV Strauss… - Precambrian …, 2018 - Elsevier
Cryogenian strata of the Windermere Supergroup were deposited in tectonically active
basins throughout the North American Cordillera from Alaska to Mexico. The Windermere …

An extended period of extremely weak geomagnetic field suggested by palaeointensities from the Ediacaran Grenville dykes (SE Canada)

D Thallner, AJ Biggin, HC Halls - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
Long-term variations of the geomagnetic field, observed in the palaeomagnetic record, have
the potential to shed much light on the evolution of Earth's deep interior. With a geomagnetic …

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 …

Evidence for ca. 560 Ma Ediacaran glaciation in the Kahar formation, central Alborz Mountains, northern Iran

N Etemad-Saeed, M Hosseini-Barzi, MH Adabi… - Gondwana …, 2016 - Elsevier
We report evidence for possible Ediacaran (ca. 560 Ma) glaciation from two localities of the
late Neoproterozoic Kahar Formation in the central Alborz Mountains of northern Iran. Here …