Iron Formations as Palaeoenvironmental Archives (e-bog) af Konhauser, Kurt O.
Konhauser, Kurt O. (forfatter)

Iron Formations as Palaeoenvironmental Archives e-bog

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Ancient iron formations - iron and silica-rich chemical sedimentary rocks that formed throughout the Precambrian eons - provide a significant part of the evidence for the modern scientific understanding of palaeoenvironmental conditions in Archaean (4.0-2.5 billion years ago) and Proterozoic (2.5-0.539 billion years ago) times. Despite controversies regarding their formation mechanisms, iron fo...
E-bog 165,78 DKK
Forfattere Konhauser, Kurt O. (forfatter)
Udgivet 20 januar 2022
Genrer 3B
Sprog English
Format epub
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9781009002271
Ancient iron formations - iron and silica-rich chemical sedimentary rocks that formed throughout the Precambrian eons - provide a significant part of the evidence for the modern scientific understanding of palaeoenvironmental conditions in Archaean (4.0-2.5 billion years ago) and Proterozoic (2.5-0.539 billion years ago) times. Despite controversies regarding their formation mechanisms, iron formations are a testament to the influence of the Precambrian biosphere on early ocean chemistry. As many iron formations are pure chemical sediments that reflect the composition of the waters from which they precipitated, they can also serve as nuanced geochemical archives for the study of ancient marine temperatures, redox states, and elemental cycling, if proper care is taken to understand their sedimentological context.