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 …

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 …

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 …

Calibrating the terminations of Cryogenian global glaciations

C Zhou, MH Huyskens, X Lang, S Xiao… - Geology, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Cryogenian Sturtian and Marinoan glacial and associated strata record the most
severe paleoclimatic events in Earth history and are the main test ground of the snowball …

[HTML][HTML] Tectonic evolution of the West Kunlun Orogenic Belt along the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Implications for the assembly of the Tarim terrane to …

CL Zhang, HB Zou, XT Ye, XY Chen - Geoscience Frontiers, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The West Kunlun orogenic belt (WKOB) along the northern margin of the Tibetan
Plateau is important for understanding the evolution of the Proto-and Paleo-Tethys oceans …

Proterozoic tectonics of eastern South China: From ca. 1.45 Ga rifting in the interior of Columbia to a long-lived convergent orogen at the periphery of Rodinia

Y Wang, Y Zhang, PA Cawood, C Wang, C Gan - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The Proterozoic geological records in eastern South China preserve a history linked to the
Columbia and Rodinia supercontinent cycles and provide key constraints in understanding …

South Australian U-Pb zircon (CA-ID-TIMS) age supports globally synchronous Sturtian deglaciation

GM Cox, V Isakson, PF Hoffman, TM Gernon… - Precambrian …, 2018 - Elsevier
A central prediction of the Snowball Earth hypothesis is that glacial onset should be
synchronous at low latitudes, and its termination should be rapid and synchronous globally …

Questioning the biogenicity of Neoproterozoic superheavy pyrite by SIMS

H Cui, K Kitajima, MJ Spicuzza, JH Fournelle… - American …, 2018 - degruyter.com
The Neoproterozoic sulfur isotope (δ34S) record is characterized by anomalously high
δ34Spyrite values. Many δ34Spyrite values are higher than the contemporaneous …

Deposition and termination of Neoproterozoic iron formations (NIFs): New insights from NIFs in China

H Ye, CZ Wu, W Li, RX Lei, X Sun, W Hao… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the past two decades, advancements in geochronological, sedimentary, and
geochemical studies have considerably deepened our understanding of the links between …

Discrete element modeling of southeast Asia's 3D lithospheric deformation during the Indian collision

L Jiao, P Tapponnier, FV Donzé… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Indian collision has deformed the eastern Asian continent in a multifaceted way,
uplifting Tibet and surrounding mountains, activating≥ 1,000 km‐long strike‐slip faults, and …