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 …

A 485-million-year history of Earth's surface temperature

EJ Judd, JE Tierney, DJ Lunt, IP Montañez, BT Huber… - science, 2024 - science.org
A long-term record of global mean surface temperature (GMST) provides critical insight into
the dynamical limits of Earth's climate and the complex feedbacks between temperature and …

Ocean temperatures through the Phanerozoic reassessed

EL Grossman, MM Joachimski - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The oxygen isotope compositions of carbonate and phosphatic fossils hold the key to
understanding Earth-system evolution during the last 500 million years. Unfortunately, the …

Deciphering temperature seasonality in Earth's ancient oceans

LC Ivany, EJ Judd - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Ongoing global warming due to anthropogenic climate change has long been recognized,
yet uncertainties regarding how seasonal extremes will change in the future persist …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding the early Paleozoic carbon cycle balance and climate change from modelling

CM Marcilly, P Maffre, G Le Hir, A Pohl… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
The Ordovician global cooling trend observed by several temperature proxies, which
coincides with one of the most significant evolutionary diversifications on Earth, is yet to be …

Duration of Sturtian “Snowball Earth” glaciation linked to exceptionally low mid-ocean ridge outgassing

A Dutkiewicz, AS Merdith, AS Collins, B Mather… - …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Sturtian “Snowball Earth” glaciation (ca. 717–661 Ma) is regarded as the most
extreme interval of icehouse climate in Earth's history. The exact trigger and sustention …

Neoproterozoic syn‐glacial carbonate precipitation and implications for a snowball Earth

AS Hood, DE Penman, MA Lechte, MW Wallace… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Neoproterozoic 'snowball Earth'hypothesis suggests that a runaway ice–
albedo feedback led to two intense glaciations around 717–635 million years ago, and this …

Solid Earth Carbon Degassing and Sequestration Since 1 Billion Years Ago

RD Müller, A Dutkiewicz, S Zahirovic… - Geochemistry …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Solid Earth CO2 outgassing, driven by plate tectonic processes, is a key driver of carbon
cycle models. However, the magnitudes and variations in outgassing are poorly constrained …

Carbon, oxygen, and strontium isotopic fingerprint in Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian limestones in an active margin setting: A record of local environment or global …

L Ackerman, J Žák, K Žák, J Pašava, V Kachlík… - Precambrian …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran to early Cambrian limestones preserved within the Blovice
accretionary wedge, Bohemian Massif, are part of Ocean Plate Stratigraphy (OPS) and …

Synglacial carbonate records of snowball Earth ocean composition—Evidence from the Nantuo Formation, South China

G Zhu, K Zhao, W Ding, R Wang… - Geological …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Cryogenian (ca. 717− 635 Ma) snowball Earth glaciations ended with the precipitation
of “cap” carbonate successions with negative carbon isotope (δ13Ccarb) values, which have …