[HTML][HTML] Glaciation-induced features or sediment gravity flows–an analytic review

MO Molén - Journal of Palaeogeography, 2023 - Elsevier
For more than 150 years, geologic characteristics claimed to be evidence for pre-
Pleistocene glaciations have been debated. Advancements in recent decades, in …

New perspectives on glacial geomorphology in Earth's deep time record

DP Le Heron, ME Busfield, X Chen… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The deep time (pre-Quaternary) glacial record is an important means to understand the
growth, development, and recession of the global cryosphere on very long timescales (106 …

A Carboniferous apex for the late Paleozoic icehouse

N Griffis, R Mundil, I Montanez, D Le Heron, P Dietrich… - 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Icehouse climate systems occur across an abbreviated portion of Earth history, constituting
c. 25% of the Phanerozoic record. The Late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA) was the most extreme …

The Late Palaeozoic Ice Age unconformity in southern Namibia viewed as a patchwork mosaic

DP Le Heron, C Kettler, NP Griffis… - The Depositional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The expansion of ice masses across southern Africa during the Late Palaeozoic Ice Age has
been known for 150 years, including the distribution of upland areas in controlling the …

Lithostratigraphy, sedimentary petrography and geochemistry of the upper Karoo Supergroup in the central Kalahari Karoo sub-basin, Botswana

F Franchi, T Kelepile, A Di Capua, MCJ De Wit… - Journal of African Earth …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Kalahari Karoo Basin of Botswana is an intracratonic basin developed in south-
central Gondwana and is filled with Upper Carboniferous–Lower Jurassic Karoo …

A grounding zone wedge origin for the Palaeoproterozoic Makganyene Formation of South Africa

DP Le Heron, ME Busfield, AJB Smith… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Makganyene Formation is a Siderian (2.45–2.22 Ga) diamictite-dominated succession,
with both outcrop and subcrop in the Griqualand West Basin of the Transvaal Group of South …

Layered mound, inverted channels and polygonal fractures from the Makgadikgadi pan (Botswana): Possible analogues for Martian aqueous morphologies

F Franchi, R MacKay, AT Selepeng… - Planetary and Space …, 2020 - Elsevier
Layered mounds and inverted channels with polygonal fractures from the Ntwetwe Pan in
the Makgadikgadi Basin (central Botswana) have been herein investigated. These …

Glacial sedimentation in Northern Gondwana: insights from the Talchir formation, Manendragarh, India

A Choudhuri, S Mandal, A Bumby, SSK Pillai - Geological Magazine, 2023 - cambridge.org
Among the vast swathes of Gondwanan sedimentary rocks in India, exposures of the Lower
Permian Talchir Formation at Manendragarh in India are exceptional for their cold marine …

Reconsidering the glaciogenic origin of Gondwana diamictites of the Dwyka Group, South Africa

MO Molén, JJ Smit - Geologos, 2022 - sciendo.com
Abstract The Gondwana Late Palaeozoic Ice Age is probably best represented by the Dwyka
Group in South Africa. Striated and grooved surfaces or pavements are commonly …

Structural influences on groundwater circulation in the Makgadikgadi salt pans of Botswana? Implications for martian playa environments

G Schmidt, E Luzzi, F Franchi, AT Selepeng… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Across the surface of Mars, evidence of past lacustrine and evaporitic environments has
been found within basins and craters, where often layered sedimentary deposits and …