Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic

AS Merdith, SE Williams, AS Collins, MG Tetley… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent progress in plate tectonic reconstructions has seen models move beyond the
classical idea of continental drift by attempting to reconstruct the full evolving configuration of …

Tectono-stratigraphic framework of Neoproterozoic to Cambrian strata, west-central US: Protracted rifting, glaciation, and evolution of the North American Cordilleran …

WA Yonkee, CD Dehler, PK Link, EA Balgord… - Earth-Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
Stratigraphic, geochronologic, and geochemical patterns of Neoproterozoic to Cambrian
sedimentary and volcanic rocks in Utah, Nevada, and SE Idaho record a dynamically …

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 …

The Proterozoic record of eukaryotes

PA Cohen, FA Macdonald - Paleobiology, 2015 - cambridge.org
Proterozoic strata host evidence of global “Snowball Earth” glaciations, large perturbations
to the carbon cycle, proposed changes in the redox state of oceans, the diversification of …

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 …

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 …

An early diagenetic deglacial origin for basal Ediacaran “cap dolostones”

ASC Ahm, AC Maloof, FA Macdonald… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
The beginning of the Ediacaran Period (∼ 635 Ma) is marked by conspicuous dolostone
units that cap Marinoan glacial deposits worldwide. The extent and sedimentary …

Diachronous development of great unconformities before Neoproterozoic snowball Earth

RM Flowers, FA Macdonald… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The Great Unconformity marks a major gap in the continental geological record, separating
Precambrian basement from Phanerozoic sedimentary rocks. However, the timing …

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 …

Geochronological constraints on Neoproterozoic rifting and onset of the Marinoan glaciation from the Kingston Peak Formation in Death Valley, California (USA)

LL Nelson, EF Smith, EB Hodgin, JL Crowley… - …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Death Valley (California, USA) hosts iconic Cryogenian snowball Earth deposits,
but the lack of direct geochronological constraints has permitted a variety of correlations and …