The supercontinent cycle: a retrospective essay

RD Nance, JB Murphy, M Santosh - Gondwana Research, 2014 - Elsevier
The recognition that Earth history has been punctuated by supercontinents, the assembly
and breakup of which have profoundly influenced the evolution of the geosphere …

Global biogeochemical changes at both ends of the Proterozoic: insights from phosphorites

D Papineau - Astrobiology, 2010 - liebertpub.com
The distribution of major phosphate deposits in the Precambrian sedimentary rock record is
restricted to periods that witnessed global biogeochemical changes, but the cause of this …

The geologic time scale

FM Gradstein, JG Ogg, MD Schmitz, GM Ogg - Boston, USA, 2012 - books.google.com
Construction and assembly of the Geologic Time Scale involves:(a) constructing a relative
(chronostratigraphic) standard scale for key periods in the Earth's rock record;(b) identifying …

Cryogenian glaciation and the onset of carbon-isotope decoupling

NL Swanson-Hysell, CV Rose, CC Calmet… - Science, 2010 - science.org
Global carbon cycle perturbations throughout Earth history are frequently linked to changing
paleogeography, glaciation, ocean oxygenation, and biological innovation. A pronounced …

Sedimentary challenge to snowball Earth

PA Allen, JL Etienne - Nature Geoscience, 2008 - nature.com
Evidence from the magnetic field fossilized in sedimentary rocks suggests that, more than
600 million years ago, ice occupied tropical latitudes. A popular explanation for these …

Quantitative models for pedogenesis—A review

B Minasny, AB McBratney, S Salvador-Blanes - Geoderma, 2008 - Elsevier
Pedogenesis models should give us answers to: how does soil form, how does it evolve,
where does it come from and how long does it take to reach this state? This paper reviews …

Natural climate change and glaciations

U Walzer, R Hendel - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
We investigated the interactions between continental growth and breakup, inorganic
carbonate–silicate cycle, volcanic activity, glaciations, natural climate change, and biotic …

Chemical weathering and atmospheric/soil CO2 uptake in the Andean and Foreland Amazon basins

JS Moquet, A Crave, J Viers, P Seyler, E Armijos… - Chemical …, 2011 - Elsevier
This study is a geochemical investigation of the Andean and Foreland basins of the Amazon
River at high spatial and time resolution, carried out within the framework of the HYBAM …

Chromium isotopes in carbonates—a tracer for climate change and for reconstructing the redox state of ancient seawater

R Frei, C Gaucher, LN Døssing, AN Sial - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2011 - Elsevier
Strontium and carbon isotopes of marine carbonates are routinely applied for
chemostratigraphic cross correlations of time-equivalent sedimentary sequences and for …

Soil carbon sequestration in a changing global environment

F Macías, M Camps Arbestain - Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for …, 2010 - Springer
Throughout its long history the Earth has undergone warm periods with high atmospheric
concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHG), and has responded with different buffering …