Late Archean to Early Paleoproterozoic global tectonics, environmental change and the rise of atmospheric oxygen

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Dating the rise of atmospheric oxygen

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Mantle Redox Evolution and the Oxidation State of the Archean Atmosphere

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Pre-Mesozoic Ice Ages: Their Bearing on Understanding the Climate System

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Thermal evolution of the Earth as recorded by komatiites

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Primitive Os and 2316 Ma age for marine shale: Implications for Paleoproterozoic glacial events and the rise of atmospheric oxygen

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Two Neoarchean supercontinents? Evidence from the Paleoproterozoic

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Emplacement of a large igneous province as a possible cause of banded iron formation 2.45 billion years ago

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Chronological correlations between the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons

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Stranded on a Late Cambrian shoreline: Medusae from central Wisconsin

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Sequence stratigraphy and plate tectonic significance of the Transvaal succession of southern Africa and its equivalent in Western Australia

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Chemostratigraphy of the Paleoproterozoic Duitschland Formation, South Africa: implications for coupled climate change and carbon cycling

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Assembly of Archean cratonic mantle lithosphere and crust: plume–arc interaction in the Abitibi–Wawa subduction–accretion complex

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A 2.5 Ga porphyry Cu–Mo–Au deposit at Malanjkhand, central India: implications for Late Archean continental assembly

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Hydrothermal and resedimented origins of the precursor sediments to banded iron formation: sedimentological evidence from the Early Palaeoproterozoic Brockman Supersequence of Western Australia

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Mass-independent isotope effects in Archean (2.5 to 3.8 Ga) sedimentary sulfides determined by ion microprobe analysis

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The Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen

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Rise of atmospheric oxygen and the “upside‐down” Archean mantle

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The Ongeluk basaltic andesite formation in Griqualand West, South Africa: Submarine alteration in a 2222 Ma proterozoic sea

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Paleoproterozoic Huronian basin: product of a Wilson cycle punctuated by glaciations and a meteorite impact

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Do supercontinents introvert or extrovert?: Sm-Nd isotope evidence

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Punctuated tectonic evolution of the earth

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Huronian rocks and uraniferous conglomerates in the Canadian shield

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SHRIMP U–Pb zircon ages for the Palaeoproterozoic Kuruman Iron Formation, Northern Cape Province, South Africa: evidence for simultaneous BIF deposition on Kaapvaal and Pilbara Cratons

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Chemostratigraphy of Paleoproterozoic carbonate successions of the Wyoming Craton: tectonic forcing of biogeochemical change?

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Correlations between the Eastern Block of the North China Craton and the South Indian Block of the Indian Shield: an Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic link

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Evidence for Paleoproterozoic cap carbonates in North America

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The Late Archaean bonanza: metallogenic and environmental consequences of the interaction between mantle plumes, lithospheric tectonics and global cyclicity

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Tectonic evolution of the Late Archaean to Early Proterozoic Mount Bruce Megasequence Set, western Australia

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Geochronology of a Late Archaean flood basalt province in the Pilbara Craton, Australia: constraints on basin evolution, volcanic and sedimentary accumulation, and continental drift rates

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Provenance and tectonic development of the late Archaean Gawler Craton, Australia; U–Pb zircon, geochemical and Sm–Nd isotopic implications

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Giant iron-ore deposits of the Hamersley province related to the breakup of Paleoproterozoic Australia: New insights from in situ SHRIMP dating of baddeleyite from mafic intrusions

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Microbial fixation of methane carbon at 2.7 Ga: was an anaerobic mechanism possible?

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SHRIMP U–Pb zircon ages of tuffaceous mudrocks in the Brockman Iron Formation of the Hamersley Range, Western Australia

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Paleomagnetism of a lateritic paleoweathering horizon and overlying Paleoproterozoic red beds from South Africa: Implications for the Kaapvaal apparent polar wander path and a confirmation of atmospheric oxygen enrichment

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Mineral evolution

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The Neoproterozoic oxygenation event: Environmental perturbations and biogeochemical cycling

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A tectonic context for fluctuations in late Paleoproterozoic oxygen content

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The 2.7–2.0 Ga volcano-sedimentary record of Africa, India and Australia: evidence for global and local changes in sea level and continental freeboard

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Two-step rise of atmospheric oxygen linked to the growth of continents

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Is Paleoproterozoic Atmospheric Oxygenation Linked to the Emergence of Continents Above Sea-Level? Evidence from Sulfur and Oxygen Isotopic Signatures in Archean to Proterozoic Sediment-Derived Granitoids

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