Deep and ancient strata are significant successor fields for future oil and gas exploration.
Recently, a unit of thick high-quality interglacial black rock series was discovered between …

The assembly of the Gondwana supercontinent during the waning stages of the Proterozoic
provides a tectonic backdrop for the myriad biological, climatological, tectonic and …

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 …

This textbook is a complete rewrite, and expansion of Hugh Rollinson's highly successful
1993 book Using Geochemical Data: Evaluation, Presentation, Interpretation. Rollinson and …

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 …

The snowball Earth hypothesis predicts globally synchronous glaciations that persisted on a
multimillion year time scale. Geochronological tests of this hypothesis have been limited by …

Abstract Cryogenian Sturtian and Marinoan glacial and associated strata record the most
severe paleoclimatic events in Earth history and are the main test ground of the snowball …

The Huqf Supergroup, Sultanate of Oman, contains an important record of Neoproterozoic
history, including evidence for two glaciations, a massive reorganization of the global carbon …

The distributions of 77 Neoproterozoic glacigenic formations are shown on global
palaeogeographic maps for 715 Ma (Sturtian), 635 Ma (Marinoan) and 580 Ma (Ediacaran) …

The correlation between Neoproterozoic tectonics, paleoenvironment and early life are
crucial for understanding the evolution of the Earth's habitability. The Yangtze Block …