Bibliography of Precambrian glaciation
Namibia

Gevers, T.W., 1931. An ancient tillite in South-West Africa. Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa 34, 1-17.

le Roex, H.D., 1941. A tillite in the Otavi Mountains, S.W.A. Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa 44, 207-218.

Martin, H., 1965. The Precambrian Geology of South West Africa and Namaqualand. Precambrian Research Unit Bulletin 1, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 159 p.

Martin, H., 1965. Beobachtungen zum Problem der jung-präkambrischen Glazialen Ablagerungen in Südwestafrika (Observations concerning the problem of the late Precambrian glacial deposits in South West Africa). Geologische Rundschau 54, 115-127.

Kröner, A., 1981. Late Precambrian diamictites of South Africa and Namibia. In: Hambrey, M.J. and Harland, W.B. (eds) Earth’s Pre-Pleistocene Glacial Record. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 167-177.

Martin, H., Porada, H., & Walliser, O.H., 1985. Mixtite deposits of the Damara sequence, Namibia, problems of interpretation. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 51, 159-196.

Henry, G., Stanistreet, I.G., & Maiden, K.J., 1986. Preliminary results of a sedimentological study of the Chuos Formation in the Central Zone of the Damara Orogen: evidence for mass flow processes and glacial activity. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia 2, 75-92.

Badenhorst, F.P., 1988. The lithostratigraphy of the Chuos mixtite in part of the southern central zone of the Damara orogen, South West Africa. Communications of the Geological Survey of South West Africa/Namibia 4, 103-110.

Hoffmann, K.-H., 1989. New aspects of lithostratigraphic subdivision and correlation of late Proterozoic to early Cambrian rocks of the southern Damara Belt and their correlation with the central and northern Damara Belt and the Gariep Belt. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia 5, 59-67.

Germs, G.J.B. and Gresse, P.G., 1991. The foreland basin of the Damara and Gariep orogens in Namaqualand and southern Namibia: stratigraphic correlations and basin dynamics. South African Journal of Geology 94, 159-169.

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.

Gresse, P.G. & Germs, G.J.B., 1993. The Nama foreland basin: sedimentation, major unconformity bounded sequences and multisided active margin advance. Precambrian Research 63, 247-272.

Hegenberger, W., 1993. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Late Precambrian Witvlei and Nama Groups, East of Windhoek. Geological Survey of Namibia Memoir 17, 82 p.

Germs, G.J.B., 1995. The Neoproterozoic of southwestern Africa, with emphasis on platform stratigraphy and paleontology. Precambrian Research 73, 137-151.

Frimmel, H.E., Klötzli, U.S. & Siegfried, P.R., 1996. New Pb-Pb single zircon age constraints on the timing of Neoproterozoic glaciation and continental break-up in Namibia. Journal of Geology 104, 459-469.

Hoffmann, K.-H. & Prave, A.R., 1996. A preliminary note on a revised subdivision and regional correlation of the Otavi Group based on glaciogenic diamictites and associated cap dolomites. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia 11, 77-82.

Hoffman, P.F., Kaufman, J.A. & Halverson, G.P., 1998. Comings and goings of global glaciations on a Neoproterozoic carbonate platform in Namibia. GSA Today 8,1-9.

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

Saylor, B.Z., Kaufman, A.J., Grotzinger, J.P., & Urban, F., 1998. A composite reference section for terminal Proterozoic strata of southern Namibia. Journal of Sedimentary Research 68, 1223-1235.

Hoffman, P.F., 1999. The break-up of Rodinia, birth of Gondwana, true polar wander and the snowball Earth. Journal of African Earth Sciences 28, 17-33.

Hoffman, P.F. & Schrag, D.P., 1999. Response: Considering a Neoproterozoic snowball Earth. Science 284 online,

Frimmel, H.E., 2000. The Pan-African Gariep Belt in southwestern Namibia and western South Africa. Communications of the Geological Survey of Namibia 12, 197-209.

Grotzinger, J.P. & James, N.P., 2000. Precambrian carbonates: evolution of understanding. In: Grotzinger, J.P. and James, N.P. (eds.) Carbonate Sedimentation and Diagenesis in the Evolving Precambrian World. SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) Special Publication 67, Tulsa, OK, p. 3-20.

Jasper, M.J.U., Stanistreet, I.G., and Charlesworth, E.G., 2000. Neoproterozoic inversion tectonics, half-graben depositories and glacial controversies, Gariep fold-thrust belt, southern Namibia. Communications of the Geological survey of Namibia 12, 187-196.

Kennedy, M.J., Christie-Blick, N. & Sohl, L.E., 2001. Are Proterozoic cap carbonates and isotopic excursions a record of gas hydrate destabilization following Earth’s coldest intervals? Geology 29, 443-446.

Condon, D.J., Prave, A.R. & Benn, D.I., 2002. Neoproterozoic glacial-rainout intervals: observations and implications. Geology 30, 35-38.

Fölling, P.G. & Frimmel, H.E., 2002. Chemostratigraphy correlation of carbonate successions in the Gariep and Saldania Belts, Namibia and South Africa. Basin Research 14, 69-88.

Frimmel, H.E., Fölling, P.G. & Eriksson, P.G., 2002. Neoproterozoic tectonic and climatic evolution recorded in the Gariep Belt, Namibia and South Africa. Basin Research 14, 55-67.

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.

Hoffman, P.F., 2002. Carbonates bounding glacial deposits: Evidence for Snowball Earth episodes and greenhouse aftermaths in the Neoproterozoic Otavi Group of northern Namibia. Excursion Guide, 16th International Sedimentological Conference, Auckland Park, South Africa, 39 p.

Hoffman, P.F. & Schrag, D.P., 2002. The snowball Earth hypothesis: testing the limits of global change. Terra Nova 14, 129-155.

Hoffman, P.F., Halverson, G.P., & Grotzinger, J.P., 2002. Are Proterozoic cap carbonates and isotopic excursions a record of gas hydrate destabilization following Earth’s coldest intervals? Comment and reply. Geology 30, 286-288.

Hurtgen, M.T., Arthur, M.A., Suits, N.S., & 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.

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.

Yoshioka, H., Asahara, Y., Tojo, B., & Kawakami, S., 2003. Systematic variations in C, O, and Sr isotopes and elemental concentrations in Neoproterozoic carbonates in Namibia: implications for a glacial to interglacial transition. Precambrian Research 124, 69-85.

Frimmel, H.E., 2004. Neoproterozoic sedimentation rates and timing of glaciation—a southern African perspective. In: Eriksson, P.G., Altermann, W., Nelson, D.R., Mueller, W.U., & Catuneanu, O. (eds.) The Precambrian Earth: Tempos and Events. Elsevier, Amsterdam, p. 459-473.

Hoffmann, K.-H., Condon, D.J., Bowring, S.A., & Crowley, J.L., 2004. U-Pb zircon date from the Neoproterozoic Ghaub Formation, Namibia: constraints on Marinoan glaciation. Geology 32, 817-820, doi:10.1130/G20519.l

Allen, P.A. & Hoffman, P.F., 2005. Extreme winds and waves in the aftermath of a Neoproterozoic glaciation. Nature 433, 123-127.

Allen, P.A. & Hoffman, P.F., 2005. Formation of Precambrian sediment ripples: Reply to Jerolmack, D.J. & Mohrig, D. Nature, 10.1038/nature04025.

Gaucher, C., Frimmel, H.E., & Germs, G.J.B., 2005. Organic-walled microfossils and biostratigraphy of the upper Port Nolloth Group (Namibia): implications for latest Neoproterozoic glaciations. Geological Magazine 142, 539-559.

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

Hoffman, P.F., 2005. 28th DeBeers Alex. Du Toit Memorial Lecture: On Cryogenian (Neoproterozoic) ice-sheet dynamics and the limitations of the glacial sedimentary record. South African Journal of Geology 108, 557-576.

Hurtgen, M.T., Arthur, M.A., & 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.

Jerolmack, D.J. & Mohrig, D., 2005. Formation of Precambrian sediment ripples: Arising from P.A. Allen & P.F. Hoffman Nature 433, 123-127 (2005). Nature, 10.1038/nature04025.

Kasemann, S.A., Hawkesworth, C.J., Prave, A.R., Fallick, A.E., & 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.

Halverson, G.P., 2006. A Neoproterozoic chronology. In: Xiao, S. & Kaufman, A.J. (eds.) Neoproterozoic Geobiology and Paleobiology. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 231-271.

Hurtgen, M.T., Halverson, G.P., Arthur, M.A., & 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.

Hoffman, P.F., Halverson, G.P., Domack, E.W., Husson, J.M., Higgins, J.A., Schrag, D.P., 2007. Are basal Ediacaran (635 Ma) post-glacial "cap dolostones" diachronous? Earth and Planetary Science Letters 00, 000-000.