The chemical index of alteration (CIA) as a proxy for climate change during glacial-interglacial transitions in Earth history

P Wang, Y Du, W Yu, TJ Algeo, Q Zhou, Y Xu, L Qi… - Earth-Science …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
The glacial-interglacial transitions of ice ages are associated with large, rapid changes in
climate, which potentially can be reconstructed from stratigraphic profiles of the chemical …

The Neoproterozoic oxygenation event: Environmental perturbations and biogeochemical cycling

LM Och, GA Shields-Zhou - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012‏ - Elsevier
The oxygen content of the Earth's surface environment is thought to have increased in two
broad steps: the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) around the Archean–Proterozoic boundary …

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 …

Continental flood basalt weathering as a trigger for Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth

GM Cox, GP Halverson, RK Stevenson… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Atmospheric CO 2 levels and global climate are regulated on geological timescales by the
silicate weathering feedback. However, this thermostat has failed multiple times in Earth's …

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 …

Hydrologic cycle weakening in hothouse climates

J Liu, J Yang, F Ding, G Chen, Y Hu - Science Advances, 2024‏ - science.org
The hydrologic cycle has wide impacts on the ocean salinity and circulation, carbon and
nitrogen cycles, and the ecosystem. Under anthropogenic global warming, previous studies …

Energetic constraints on precipitation under climate change

PA O'Gorman, RP Allan, MP Byrne, M Previdi - Surveys in geophysics, 2012‏ - Springer
Energetic constraints on precipitation are useful for understanding the response of the
hydrological cycle to ongoing climate change, its response to possible geoengineering …

Climate of the Neoproterozoic

RT Pierrehumbert, DS Abbot, A Voigt… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2011‏ - annualreviews.org
The Neoproterozoic is a time of transition between the ancient microbial world and the
Phanerozoic, marked by a resumption of extreme carbon isotope fluctuations and glaciation …

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 …