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 …

Sedimentological perspectives on climatic, atmospheric and environmental change in the Neoproterozoic Era

GH Spence, DP Le Heron, IJ Fairchild - Sedimentology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Sedimentological insights underpin many of the important recent advances in understanding
of Earth system behaviour in the Neoproterozoic Era. This article reviews three main …

Cryogenian glacial erosion of the central Canadian Shield: The “late” Great Unconformity on thin ice

KT McDannell, CB Keller - Geology, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Great Unconformity has been recognized for more than a century, but only
recently have its origins become a subject of debate. Hypotheses suggest global Snowball …

Continental carbonate facies of a Neoproterozoic panglaciation, north‐east Svalbard

IJ Fairchild, EJ Fleming, H Bao, DI Benn… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The Marinoan panglaciation (ca 650 to 635 Ma) is represented in north‐east Svalbard by the
130 to 175 m thick Wilsonbreen Formation which contains syn‐glacial carbonates in its …

The Tonian-Cryogenian transition in Northeastern Svalbard

GP Halverson, M Kunzmann, JV Strauss… - Precambrian …, 2018 - Elsevier
The Neoproterozoic stratigraphic succession in northeastern Svalbard is uniquely important
in documenting the evolution of Neoproterozoic life, seawater chemistry, and …

A newly discovered Neoproterozoic diamictite-cap carbonate couplet from the Western Himalaya: The expansion of the Marinoan snowball Earth glaciation to the …

MMSS Khan, M Umar, B Pan, X Sun, S Ahmed… - Precambrian …, 2022 - Elsevier
One of the central tenets of the snowball Earth hypothesis is the global recognition of the
glacial diamictite-cap carbonate couplets in the Cryogenian sedimentary record. However …

The Marinoan cap carbonate of Svalbard: Syngenetic marine dolomite with 17O‐anomalous carbonate‐associated sulphate

IJ Fairchild, H Bao, RJ Windmill… - The Depositional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Two cap carbonates overlying Cryogenian panglacial deposits are found in North‐East
Svalbard of which the younger (635 Ma) forms the base of the Ediacaran Period. It is …

Lithofacies and glacio-tectonic deformation structures of the Tiesi'ao/Dongshanfeng Formation on the Yangtze Block, South China: Implications for Sturtian Glaciation …

C Hu, M Zhu - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cryogenian Period (~ 720–635 Ma) witnessed the most extensive and
prolonged glaciation events in Earth history. Vast ice sheets of at least two global …

Upper Paleozoic glacigenic deposits of Gondwana: Stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental significance of a tillite succession in Northern Victoria Land (Antarctica)

G Cornamusini, FM Talarico, S Cirilli, A Spina… - Sedimentary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Late Paleozoic glacial deposits are widespread in Gondwana. In Antarctica the best
outcrops occur in the Central Transantarctic Mountains, Ellsworth Mountains, Pensacola …

Descending into the “snowball”: High resolution sedimentological and geochemical analysis across the Tonian to Cryogenian boundary in South Australia

GM Virgo, AS Collins, KJ Amos, J Farkaš… - Precambrian …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Tonian–Cryogenian transition (ca. 720 Ma) represents a period of significant
environmental change in Earth history, involving variations in oceanic and atmospheric …