Exceptional preservation of expandable clay minerals in the ca. 2.1Ga black shales of the Francevillian basin, Gabon and its implication for atmospheric oxygen accumulation

Chemical Geology

Volumn 362, Issue , 2013, Pages 181-192

  Ossa Ossa, Frantz ^a   El Albani, Abderrazak ^b   Hofmann, Axel ^a   Bekker, Andrey ^c   Gauthier Lafaye, François ^d   Pambo, Florent ^e   Meunier, Alain ^b   Fontaine, Claude ^b   Boulvais, Philippe ^f   Pierson Wickmann, Anne Catherine ^f   Cavalazzi, Barbara ^a,g   Macchiarelli, Roberto ^b,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e Direction Mine   (Gabon)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^g CENTRE DE BIOPHYSIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^h MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Atmospheric oxygen; Clay minerals; Clay organic matter complexes; Francevillian Group; Organic matter; Paleoproterozoic

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN; CLAY-ORGANIC MATTER COMPLEXES; FRANCEVILLIAN GROUP; MINERAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MIXED-LAYER ILLITE/SMECTITE; ORGANIC MATTER PRESERVATIONS; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; STRATIGRAPHIC INTERVALS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; GALLIUM; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN; SHALE; STRATIGRAPHY;

CLAY MINERALS;

ACCUMULATION; BLACK SHALE; CARBON; CARBONATE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CLAY MINERAL; ILLITE; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN; PROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SEQUESTRATION (CHEMISTRY); SMECTITE;

GABON;

EID: 84889610468     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.08.011     Document Type: Article

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