All Articles tagged paleoenvironment

• Science Paper
  September 01, 2022 EDT
  Post-depositional Transformations in Sedimentary Rocks and Implications for Paleoenvironmental Studies: Evidence From the Mesoproterozoic (∼1.1 Ga) of the Taoudeni Basin, Mauritania
  Mohamed GhnahallaAbderrazak El AlbaniAhmed Abd ElmolaOlabode M. BankoleClaude FontaineMohamed Salem SabarAlain TrentesauxClaude LaforestAlain MeunierCeline BoissardChenyi TuTimothy W. Lyons

  Understanding paleoenvironmental dynamics linked to biological evolution in Earth history is a major goal within the geological community. The difficulty of achieving this goal, at least in part, lies with...

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• Science Paper
  May 01, 2013 EDT
  Paleoredox and Pyritization of Soft-Bodied Fossils in the Ordovician Frankfort Shale of New York
  Úna C. FarrellDerek E. G. BriggsEmma U. HammarlundErik A. SperlingRobert R. Gaines

  Multiple beds in the Frankfort Shale (Upper Ordovician, New York State), including the original “Beecher9s Trilobite Bed,” yield fossils with pyritized soft-tissues. A bed-by-bed geochemical and sedimentological analysis was carried...

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