Bibliography of geochemical studies
of Precambrian glaciation

1970-79

McLennan, S.M., Fryer, B.J., Fryer, B.J., & Young, G.M., 1979. The geochemistry of the carbonate-rich Espanola Formation (Huronian) with emphasis on the rare earth elements. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 16, 230-239.

Roberts, J.D., 1971. Late Precambrian glaciation: an anti-greenhouse effect? Nature 234, 216.

Roberts, J.D., 1976. Late Precambrian dolomites, Vendian glaciation, and synchroneity of Vendian glaciations. Journal of Geology 84, 47-63.

Williams, G.E., 1979. Sedimentology, stable-isotope geochemistry and palaeoenvironment of dolostones capping late Precambrian glacial sequences in Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia 26, 377-386.

Young, G.M., 1969. Geochemistry of Early Proterozoic tillites and argillites of the Gowganda Formation, Ontario. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 33, 483-492.


1980-89

Knoll, A.H., Hayes, J.M., Kaufman, A.J., Swett, K., & Lambert, I.B., 1986. Secular variation in carbon isotope ratios from Upper Proterozoic successions of Svalbard and East Greenland. Nature 321, 831-838.


1990-99

Hoffman, P.F., Kaufman, A.J., Halverson, G.P. & Schrag, D.P., 1998. A Neoproterozoic snowball Earth. Science 281, 1342-46.

Iyer, S.S., Babinski, M., Krouse, H.R., & Chemale, F.Jr., 1995. Highly 13C-enriched carbonate and organic matter in the Neoproterozoic sediments of the Bambuí Group, Brazil. Precambrian Research 73, 271-282.

Kaufman, A.J., Hayes, J.M., Knoll, A.H., & Germs, J.B., 1991. Isotopic compositions of carbonates and organic carbon from upper Proterozoic successions in Namibia: stratigraphic variation and the effects of diagenesis and metamorphism. Precambrian Research 49, 301-327.

Kaufman, A.J., Jacobsen, S.B., & Knoll, A.H., 1993. The Vendian record of Sr and C isotopic variations in seawater: implications for tectonic and paleoclimate. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 120, 409-430.

Kaufman, A.J., Knoll, A.H. & Narbonne, G.M., 1997. Isotopes, ice ages, and terminal Proterozoic earth history. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 94, 6600-6605.

Misi, A. and Kyle, J.R., 1995. Upper Proterozoic carbonate stratigraphy, diagenesis, and stromatolitic phosphorite formation, Irecê Basin, Bahia, Brazil. Journal of Sedimentary Research A64, 299-310.

Panahi, A. & Young, G.M., 1997. A geochemical investigation into the provenance of the Neoproterozoic Port Askaig Tillite, Dalradian Supergroup, western Scotland. Precambrian Research 85, 81-96.

Shields, G., Stille, P., Brasier, M.D., & Atudorei, N.-V., 1997. Stratified oceans and oxygenation of the late Precambrian environment: a post glacial geochemical record from the Neoproterozoic of W. Mongolia. Terra Nova 9, 218-222.


2000

Gorjan, P., Veevers, J.J., & Walter, M.R., 2000. Neoproterozoic sulfur-isotope variations in Australia and global implications. Precambrian Research 100, 151-179.


2001

Kennedy, M.J., Christie-Blick, N. & Prave, A.R., 2001. Carbon isotopic composition of Neoproterozoic glacial carbonates as a test of paleoceanographic models for snowball Earth phenomena. Geology 29, 1135-1138.


2002

Halverson, G.P., Hoffman, P.F., Schrag, D.P. & Kaufman, J.A., 2002. A major perturbation of the carbon cycle before the Ghaub glaciation (Neoproterozoic) in Namibia: Prelude to snowball Earth? Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geosystems 3, on-line 10.1029/2001GC000244.

Hurtgen, M.T., Arthur, M.A., Suits, N.S., and Kaufman, A.J., 2002. The sulfur isotopic composition of Neoproterozoic seawater sulfate: implications for a snowball Earth? Earth and Planetary Science Letters 203, 413-429.

Shields, G.A., Brasier, M.D., Stille, P., and Dorjnamjaa, D., 2002. Factors contributing to high ?13C values in Cryogenian limestones of western Mongolia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 196, 99-111.

Schrag, D.P., Berner, R.A., Hoffman, P.F. & Halverson, G.P. 2002. On the initiation of a snowball Earth. Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geosystems 3, on-line 10.1029/2001GC000219.


2003

Goddéris, Y., Donnadieu, Y., Nédélec, A., Dupré, B., Dessert, C., Grard, A., Ramstein, G. & Francois, L.M., 2003. The Sturtian ‘snowball’ glaciation: fire and ice. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 211, 1-12.

Gorjan, P., Walter, M.R. & Swart, R., 2003. Global Neoproterozoic (Sturtian) post-glacial sulfide-sulfur isotope anomaly recognized in Namibia. Journal of African Earth Sciences 36, 89-98.

Higgins, J.A. & Schrag, D.P., 2003. Aftermath of a snowball Earth. Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geosystems 4, 10.1029/2002GC000403.

Pavlov, A.A., Hurtgen, M.T., Kasting, J.F., and Arthur, M.A., 2003. Methane-rich Proterozoic atmosphere? Geology 31, 87-90.

Ridgwell, A.J., Kennedy, M.J. Caldeira, K., 2003. Carbonate deposition, climate stability, and Neoproterozoic ice ages. Science 302, 859-862.

Zheng, Y.F., Fu, B., Gong, B., and Li, L., 2003. Stable isotope geochemistry of ultrahigh pressure metamorphic rocks from the Dabie­Sulu orogen in China: implications for geodynamics and fluid regime. Earth-Science Reviews 62, 105-161.

Zheng, Y.F., Gong, B., Zhao, Z.F., and Li, Y.L., 2003. Two types of gneisses associated with eclogite at Chuanghe in the Dabie terrane: carbon isotope, zircon U-Pb dating and oxygen isotope. Lithos 70, 321-343.


2004

Dobrzinski, N., Bahlburg, H., Strauss, H., and Zhang, Q., 2004. Geochemical proxies applied to the Neoproterozoic glacial succession on the Yangtze Platform, South China. In: Jenkins, G.S., McMenamin, M.A.S., McKey, C.P., and Sohl, L. (eds.) The Extreme Proterozoic: Geology, Geochemistry, and Climate. Geophysical Monograph 146, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC., p. 13-32.

Hurtgen, M.T., Arthur, M.A., and Prave, A.R., 2004. The sulfur isotope composition of carbonate-associated sulfate in Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic carbonates from Death Valley, California. In: Amend, J.P., Edwards, K.J., and Lyons, T.W. (eds.) Sulfur Biogeochemistry—Past and Present. Geological Society of America Special Paper 379, Boulder, CO, p. 177-194.

Lenton, T.M. and Watson, A.J., 2004. Biotic enhancement of weathering, atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide in the Neoproterozoic. Geophysical Research Letters 31, L05202, doi:10.1029/2003GL018802.

Ridgwell, A. and Kennedy, M., 2004. Secular changes in the importance of neritic carbonate deposition as a control on the magnitude and stability of Neoproterozoic ice ages. In: Jenkins, G.S., McMenamin, M.A.S., McKey, C.P., and Sohl, L. (eds.) The Extreme Proterozoic: Geology, Geochemistry, and Climate. Geophysical Monograph 146, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC., p. 55-72.

Zheng, Y.F., Wu, Y.B., Chen, F.K., Gong, B., Li, L., Zhao, Z.F., 2004. Zircon U-Pb and oxygen isotope evidence for a large-scale 18O depletion event in igneous rocks during the Neoproterozoic. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 68, 4245-4165.


2005

Aharon, P., 2005. Redox stratification and anoxia of the early Precambrian oceans: implications for carbon isotope excursions and oxidation events. Precambrian Research 137, 207-222.

Bodiselitsch, B., Koeberl, C., Master, S., and Reimold, W.U., 2005. Estimating duration and intensity of Neoproterozoic snowball glaciations from Ir anomalies. Science 308. 239-242.

Goldberg, T., Poulton, S.W., and Strauss, H., 2005. Sulphur and oxygen isotope signatures of late Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian sulphate, Yangtze Platform, China: diagenetic constraints and seawater evolution. Precambrian Research 137, 223-241.

Halverson, G.P., Hoffman, P.F., Schrag, D.P., Maloof, A.C., and Rice, A.H.N., 2005. Toward a Neoproterozoic composite carbon-isotope record. Geological Society of America Bulletin 117, 1181-1207, 10.1130/B25630.1

Hurtgen, M.T., Arthur, M.A., and Halverson, G.P., 2005. Neoproterozoic sulfur isotopes, the evolution of microbial sulfur species, and the burial efficiency of sulfide as sedimentary pyrite. Geology 33, 41-44.

Kasemann, S.A., Hawkesworth, C.J., Prave, A.R., Fallick, A.E., and Pearson, P.N., 2005. Boron and calcium isotope composition in Neoproterozoic carbonate rocks from Namibia: evidence for extreme environmental change. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 231, 73-86.

Melezhik, V.A., Fallick, A.E., and Pokrovsky, B.G., 2005. Enigmatic nature of thick sedimentary carbonates depleted in 13C beyond the canonical mantle value: The challenges to our understanding of the terrestrial carbon cycle. Precambrian Research 137, 131-165.

Shen, Y., Zhang, T., and Chu, X., 2005. C-isotopic stratification in a Neoproterozoic postglacial ocean. Precambrian Research 137, 243-251.


2006

Canfield, D.E., Poulton, S.W., & Narbonne, G.M., 2006. Late-Neoproterozoic deep-ocean oxygenation and the rise of animal life. Science 000, 000-000.

Corsetti, F.A., Stewart, J.H., & Hagadorn, J.W., 2006. Neoproterozoic diamictite-cap carbonate succession and d13C chemostratigraphy from eastern Sonora, Mexico. Chemical Geology 00, 000-000.

Fike, D.A., Grotzinger, J.P., Pratt, L.M., & Summons, R.E., 2006. Oxidation of the Ediacaran Ocean. Nature 444, 744-747, doi:10.1038/nature05345

Font, E., Nédélec, A., Trindade, R.I.F., Macouin, M., and Charrière, A., 2006. Chemostratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic Mirassol d'Oeste cap dolostones (Mato Grosso, Brazil): An alternative model for Marinoan cap dolostone formation. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 000, 000-000.

Hurtgen, M.T., Halverson, G.P., Arthur, M.A., and Hoffman, P.F., 2006. Sulfur cycling in the aftermath of a 635-Ma snowball glaciation: Evidence for a syn-glacial sulfidic deep ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 245, 551-570.

Kaufman, A.J., Jiang, G., Christie-Blick, N., Banerjee, D.M., and Rai, V., 2006. Stable isotope record of the terminal Neoproterozoic Krol platform in the Lesser Himalayas of northern India. Precambrian Research 000, 000-000.

Misi, A., Kaufman, A.J., Veizer, J., Powis, K., Azmy, K., Boggiani, P.C., Gaucher, C., Teixeia, J.B.G., Sanches, A.L., Iyer, S.S.S., 2006. Chemostratigraphy correlation of Neoproterozoic successions in South America. Chemical Geology 00, 000-000.

Nogueira, A.C.R., Riccomini, C., Sial, A.N., Moura, C.A.V., Trindade, R.I.F., & Fairchild, T.R., 2006. Carbon and strontium isotope fluctuations and paleoceanographic changes in the late Neoproterozoic Araras carbonate platform, southern Amazon craton, Brazil. Chemical Geology 00, 000-000.

Polteau, S., Moore, J.M., and Tsikos, H., 2006. The geology and geochemistry of the Palaeoproterozoic Makganyene diamictite. Precambrian Research 148, 257-274.

Rieu, R., Allen, P.A., Etienne, J.L., Cozzi, A., & Wiechert, U., 2006. A Neoproterozoic glacially influenced basin margin succession and 'atypical' cap carbonate associated with bedrock paleovalleys, Mirbat area, southern Oman. Basin Research 18, 471-496, doi: 10.111/j.1365-2117.2006.00304.x

Tewari, V.C. & Sial, A.N., 2006. Neoproterozoic—Early Cambrian isotopic variation and chemostratigraphy of the Lesser Himalaya, India, eastern Condwana. Chemical Geology 00, 000-000.

Zhou, C. & Xiao, S., 2006. Ediacaran d13C chemostratigraphy. Chemical Geology 00, 000-000.