The Green River salt mystery: What was the source of the hyperalkaline lake waters?

TK Lowenstein, EA Jagniecki, AR Carroll… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Bicarbonate-rich source waters were needed to form the largest sodium carbonate evaporite
deposits in the geologic record, the early and middle Eocene Green River trona (NaHCO 3 …

Climate-driven paleolimnological change controls lacustrine mudstone depositional process and organic matter accumulation: Constraints from lithofacies and …

Y Ma, M Fan, Y Lu, H Liu, Y Hao, Z **e, Z Liu… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
The influence of paleoclimate on the depositional process of lacustrine mudstone and
organic matter accumulation is important to both paleoclimate reconstruction and …

Oldest preserved sodium carbonate evaporite: late paleozoic Fengcheng Formation, Junggar Basin, NW China

T Wang, J Cao, AR Carroll, D Zhi, Y Tang… - GSA …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Sodium carbonate evaporites can provide important paleoclimatic constraints and economic
resources but are relatively rare; most known examples are limited to the Cenozoic. The first …

Mars is a mirror–Understanding the Pahrump Hills mudstones from a perspective of Earth analogues

J Schieber, KM Bohacs, M Coleman, D Bish… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mudstone‐dominated lacustrine strata in the Pahrump Hills area of Gale Crater, Mars, have
the most extensive data set of physical and geochemical observations yet collected …

Arid climate disturbance and the development of salinized lacustrine oil shale in the Middle Jurassic Dameigou Formation, Qaidam Basin, northwestern China

Y Wang, S Xu, F Hao, SW Poulton, Y Zhang… - Palaeogeography …, 2021 - Elsevier
The lacustrine Dameigou organic-rich shale of the northern Qaidam Basin is a particularly
promising play for recent unconventional oil and gas exploration in China. Deposition was …

Sedimentary record of seismic events in the Eocene Green River Formation and its implications for regional tectonics on lake evolution (Bridger Basin, Wyoming)

B Törő, BR Pratt - Sedimentary Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
Outcrops and cores from the top of the lacustrine Tipton Member and the base of the Wilkins
Peak Member (~ 51.5 Ma) of the Eocene Green River Formation, Bridger Basin in …

Depositional controls in an ancient, closed lake system: A high-resolution and multi-scalar case study from the Yacoraite Formation (Salta Basin, Argentina)

M Vallati, S Tomás, C Galli, G Winterleitner, M Mutti - Sedimentary Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Yacoraite Formation (Cretaceous–Paleogene) is a mixed carbonate–
siliciclastic microbialite-bearing lacustrine succession deposited in the intra-continental …

Lake level controls the recurrence of giant stromatolite facies

M Ingalls, AC Fetrow, KE Snell, CM Frantz… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Stromatolites have often served as a diagnostic carbonate facies for deep‐time
palaeoclimatic and geobiological studies because they may form under favourable …

Temperature seasonality in the North American continental interior during the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum

EG Hyland, KW Huntington, ND Sheldon… - Climate of the …, 2018 - cp.copernicus.org
Paleogene greenhouse climate equability has long been a paradox in paleoclimate
research. However, recent developments in proxy and modeling methods have suggested …

Influence of lake-basin morphology on climate-sediment transfer functions: Early Eocene Wilkins Peak Member, Green River Formation, Wyoming

AP Walters, AR Carroll, SR Meyers… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Lacustrine strata are often among the highest-resolution terrestrial paleoclimate archives
available. The manner in which climate signals are registered into lacustrine deposits varies …