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Role of Microorganisms in Banded Iron Formations

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The paleoenvironmental implications of pre-Great Oxidation Event manganese deposition in the Mesoarchean Ijzermijn Iron Formation Bed, Mozaan Group, Pongola Supergroup, South Africa

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A biological switch at the ocean surface as a cause of laminations in a Precambrian iron formation

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A new appraisal of depositional cyclicity in the Neoarchean-Paleoproterozoic Dales Gorge Member (Brockman Iron Formation, Hamersley Basin, Australia)

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Generation of hydrothermal Fe‐Si oxyhydroxide deposit on the Southwest Indian Ridge and its implication for the origin of ancient banded iron formations

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Isotopic Sm-Nd signatures of Precambrian Banded Iron Formation from the Fennoscandian shield, East-European Platform, and Bundelkhand craton, India

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Fe isotope fractionation during Fe(II) oxidation by the marine photoferrotroph Rhodovulum iodosum in the presence of Si – Implications for Precambrian iron formation deposition

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Seeing through the magnetite: Reassessing Eoarchean atmosphere composition from Isua (Greenland) ≥3.7 Ga banded iron formations

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Water near its Supercritical Point and at Alkaline pH for the Production of Ferric Oxides and Silicates in Anoxic Conditions. A New Hypothesis for the Synthesis of Minerals Observed in Banded Iron Formations and for the Related Geobiotropic Chemistry inside Fluid Inclusions

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The Sedimentary Origin of Black and White Banded Cherts of the Buck Reef, Barberton, South Africa

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Life on a Mesoarchean marine shelf – insights from the world’s oldest known granular iron formation

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