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 …

Neoproterozoic glacial origin of the Great Unconformity

CB Keller, JM Husson, RN Mitchell… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The Great Unconformity, a profound gap in Earth's stratigraphic record often evident below
the base of the Cambrian system, has remained among the most enigmatic field …

[HTML][HTML] The Cryogenian Ghaub Formation of Namibia–New insights into Neoproterozoic glaciations

T Bechstädt, H Jäger, A Rittersbacher… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Neoproterozoic Cryogenian ('Marinoan') Ghaub Formation of northwestern
Namibia represents an important founding pillar of the Snowball Earth hypothesis and its …

Seawater-buffered diagenesis, destruction of carbon isotope excursions, and the composition of DIC in Neoproterozoic oceans

PF Hoffman, KG Lamothe - Proceedings of the National …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Carbonate sediments of nonglacial Cryogenian (659 to 649 Ma) and early Ediacaran (635 to
590 Ma) age exhibit large positive and negative δ13Ccarb excursions in a shallow-water …

Cyclic cold climate during the Nantuo glaciation: Evidence from the Cryogenian Nantuo Formation in the Yangtze block, South China

X Lang, J Chen, H Cui, L Man, KJ Huang, Y Fu… - Precambrian …, 2018 - Elsevier
Geological and paleomagnetic data indicate that the ice sheets might have extended to low-
latitude regions in the Cryogenian (720–635 Ma). The 'snowball Earth'hypothesis proposed …

Secular variation in seawater redox state during the Marinoan Snowball Earth event and implications for eukaryotic evolution

W Shen, X Zhu, B Yan, J Li, P Liu, SW Poulton - Geology, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The ocean is hypothesized to have been anoxic throughout the Marinoan “Snowball Earth”
event, from ca. 649 to 635 Ma, with potentially catastrophic implications for the survival of …

The Neoproterozoic Hüttenberg δ13C anomaly: genesis and global implications

H Cui, AJ Kaufman, Y Peng, XM Liu, RE Plummer… - Precambrian …, 2018 - Elsevier
The Neoproterozoic Hüttenberg Formation in northeastern Namibia records a remarkable δ
13 C carb positive excursion with a sustained plateau of values up to+ 12‰(ie, the …

Ice-rafted dropstones in “postglacial” Cryogenian cap carbonates

DP Le Heron, ME Busfield, C Kettler - Geology, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Dropstones of ice-rafted origin are typically cited as key cold-climate evidence in
Cryogenian strata and, according to conventional wisdom, should not occur in postglacial …

100 myr cycles of oceanic lithosphere generation in peri-Gondwana: Neoproterozoic–Devonian ophiolites from the NW African–Iberian margin of Gondwana and the …

R Arenas, SS Martínez, R Albert, F Haissen… - 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Variscan Orogen in Iberia and the Anti-Atlas Mountains in Morocco contains a
set of ophiolites formed between Neoproterozoic and Devonian times, during the complex …