A new depositional model for glaciogenic neoproterozoic iron formation: Insights from the chemostratigraphy and basin configuration of the rapitan iron formation

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 455-476

  Baldwin, Geoffrey J ^a,b   Turner, Elizabeth C ^a   Kamber, Balz S ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLASTIC ROCK; DEEP WATER; DEPOSITIONAL MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FERRIC IRON; FERROUS IRON; GLOBAL OCEAN; GRANITIC COMPOSITION; HIGH QUALITY; ICE COVER; IRON FORMATION; IRON OXYHYDROXIDES; NEOPROTEROZOIC; OPEN OCEAN; PRECAMBRIAN; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; REDOX CONDITION; REDOX EVOLUTION; SHALLOW WATERS; STRATIFIED WATERS; WATER DEPTH;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CATCHMENTS; EUROPIUM; EUTROPHICATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ICE; IRON; IRON COMPOUNDS; MOLYBDENUM; STRATIGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; YTTRIUM;

IRON DEPOSITS;

BACTERIUM; BASIN ANALYSIS; BASIN EVOLUTION; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLASTIC ROCK; DATA SET; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GLOBAL OCEAN; GRANITE; HIATUS; ICE COVER; IRON; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOLYBDENUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPEN OCEAN; PRECAMBRIAN; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; REDOX CONDITIONS; SHALLOW WATER; STRATIFICATION; SURFACE WATER; TRACE ELEMENT; YTTRIUM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; CARIACO BASIN; CARIBBEAN SEA;

EID: 84856837490     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: 14803313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E11-066     Document Type: Article

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