The onset of widespread marine red beds and the evolution of ferruginous oceans
The evolution of oceanic redox state in the past is poorly known. Here, the authors present a temporal record of banded iron formations and marine red beds, which indicate deep-ocean oxygenation occurred in the middle Ediacaran, coinciding with the onset of widespread marine red beds.
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2017-08-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00502-x |
