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A Conceptual Review of Regional-Scale Controls on the Composition of Clastic Sediment and the Co-Evolution of Continental Blocks and their Sedimentary Cover

A high continental weathering flux into Paleoarchean seawater revealed by strontium isotope analysis of 3.26 Ga barite

A lower limit for atmospheric carbon dioxide levels 3.2 billion years ago.

scientific article published in April 2004

Abundant pyroclastic komatiitic volcanism in the 3.5–3.2 Ga Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa

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Accretionary history of the Archean Barberton Greenstone Belt (3.55-3.22 Ga), southern Africa

scientific article

Aerosol–radiation–cloud interactions in a regional coupled model: the effects of convective parameterisation and resolution

An archean impact layer from the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons

scientific article (publication date: 23 August 2002)

Archaean flow-top alteration zones formed initially in a low-temperature sulphate-rich environment

scientific article published in Nature

Architecture and evolution of the Paine channel complex, Cerro Toro Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Silla Syncline, Magallanes Basin, Chile

scientific article published on 10 December 2007

Biosignatures in ancient rocks: a summary of discussions at a field workshop on biosignatures in ancient rocks

scientific article published in October 2008

Book Reviews

Channelized debris‐flow deposits and their impact on turbidity currents: The Puchkirchen axial channel belt in the Austrian Molasse Basin

scientific article published on 31 May 2012

Chapter 5.3 An Overview of the Geology of the Barberton Greenstone Belt and Vicinity: Implications for Early Crustal Development

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Characterising Brazilian biomass burning emissions using WRF-Chem with MOSAIC sectional aerosol

Climbing-ripple successions in turbidite systems: depositional environments, sedimentation rates and accumulation times

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Comment and Reply on “Ouachita trough: Part of a Cambrian failed rift system”: REPLY

scientific article published in 1986

Comment and Reply on “Pseudoconglomerate and a re-examination of some paleoenvironmental controversies”: COMMENT

scientific article published in 1986

Comments and Replies on “Early Archean silicate spherules of probable impact origin, South Africa and Western Australia”: REPLY

scholarly article by Donald R. Lowe published in 1987

Comments and Replies on “Early Archean silicate spherules of probable impact origin, South Africa and Western Australia”: REPLY

scholarly article by Donald R. Lowe & Gary Byerly published in 1987

Comparative sedimentology of the principal volcanic sequences of Archean greenstone belts in South Africa, Western Australia and Canada: Implications for crustal evolution

scientific article published in February 1982

Crustal fracturing, unconformities, and barite deposition, 3.26–3.23 Ga, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

scientific article published in July 2019

Detrital zircon geochronology of sandstones of the 3.6–3.2 Ga Barberton greenstone belt: No evidence for older continental crust

scholarly article

Diffusion of sediment on the lee of dune-like bedforms: theoretical and numerical analysis

scientific article published in August 1981

Early Archean silicate spherules of probable impact origin, South Africa and Western Australia

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Early Archean spherule beds: Chromium isotopes confirm origin through multiple impacts of projectiles of carbonaceous chondrite type

scholarly article

Early Archean spherule beds: Chromium isotopes confirm origin through multiple impacts of projectiles of carbonaceous chondrite type: Comment and Reply

scientific article

Environmental control on diverse stromatolite morphologies in the 3000 Myr Pongola Supergroup, South Africa

scientific article published in June 1989

Evidence for a low-O2 Archean atmosphere from nickel-rich chrome spinels in 3.24Ga impact spherules, Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa

scholarly article

Facies and Architectural Asymmetry in a Conglomerate-Rich Submarine Channel Fill, Cerro Toro Formation, Sierra Del Toro, Magallanes Basin, Chile

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Facies architecture of a submarine fan channel-levee complex: the Juniper Ridge Conglomerate, Coalinga, California

scientific article published on 25 April 2002

Fan-delta sequence in the Archean Fig Tree Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

scientific article published in December 1990

Filamentous microfossils from the 3,500-Myr-old Onverwacht Group, Barberton Mountain Land, South Africa

scientific article published in Nature

Flow properties of turbidity currents in Bute Inlet, British Columbia

scientific article published in December 1991

Fragmentation and dispersal of komatiitic pyroclasts in the 3.5-3.2 Ga Onverwacht Group, Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa

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Geochemistry and petrology of komatiites of the Pioneer Ultramafic Complex of the 3.3Ga Weltevreden Formation, Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa

scholarly article by M. Thompson Stiegler et al published August 2012 in Precambrian Research

Geochemistry of a silicified, felsic volcaniclastic suite from the early Archaean Panorama Formation, Pilbara Block, Western Australia: an evaluation of depositional and post-depositional processes with special emphasis on the rare-earth elements

scientific article published in January 1993

Geologic evidence for Archean atmospheric and climatic evolution: Fluctuating levels of CO2, CH4, and O2 with an overriding tectonic control

scientific article published in 2004

Geologic record of partial ocean evaporation triggered by giant asteroid impacts, 3.29–3.23 billion years ago

scientific article

Hadean zircon from a 3.3 Ga sandstone, Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa

scholarly article

High Archean climatic temperature inferred from oxygen isotope geochemistry of cherts in the 3.5 Ga Swaziland Supergroup, South Africa

scientific article published in May 2003

High resolution tephra and U/Pb chronology of the 3.33–3.26Ga Mendon Formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

scholarly article

Hydrogen-based carbon fixation in the earliest known photosynthetic organisms

scholarly article

Iron and Manganese Minerals from South African Ironstone Deposits

Ironstone bodies of the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa: Products of a Cenozoic hydrological system, not Archean hydrothermal vents!

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Ironstone pods in the Archean Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa: Earth's oldest seafloor hydrothermal vents reinterpreted as Quaternary subaerial springs

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Ironstone pods in the Archean Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa: Earth's oldest seafloor hydrothermal vents reinterpreted as Quaternary subaerial springs: Comment and Reply

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Lahars initiated by the 13 November 1985 eruption of Nevado del Ruiz, Colombia

scientific article published in Nature

Late syndepositional deformation and detachment tectonics in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

scientific article published in December 1994

Mineralogy and diagenesis of 3.24Ga meteorite impact spherules

scholarly article by Alexandra E. Krull-Davatzes et al published February 2012 in Precambrian Research

Molecular identification of cyanobacteria associated with stromatolites from distinct geographical locations

scientific article published in January 2002

Numerical simulation of turbidity current flow and sedimentation: I. Theory

scientific article published in February 1997

Numerical simulation of turbidity current flow and sedimentation: II. Results and geological applications

scientific article published in February 1997

Ouachita trough: Part of a Cambrian failed rift system

scientific article

Outcrop characterization of a submarine channel-lobe complex: The Lower Mount Messenger Formation, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

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Palaeogeography and diachronous infill of an ancient deep-marine foreland basin, Upper Cretaceous Cerro Toro Formation, Magallanes Basin

Paleoarchean ocean crust and mantle excavated by meteor impact: Insight into early crustal processes and tectonics

scholarly article

Petrography and provenance of silicified early Archaean volcaniclastic sandstones, eastern Pilbara Block, Western Australia

scientific article published in October 1989

Photosynthetic microbial mats in the 3,416-Myr-old ocean

scientific article

Primary silica granules—A new mode of Paleoarchean sedimentation

scholarly article

Prolonged magmatism and time constraints for sediment deposition in the early Archean Barberton greenstone belt: evidence from the Upper Onverwacht and Fig Tree groups

scholarly article

Provenance and tectonic implications of the 3.28–3.23 Ga Fig Tree Group, central Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa

scientific article published in June 2019

Recently discovered 3.42-3.23 Ga impact layers, Barberton Belt, South Africa: 3.8 Ga detrital zircons, Archean impact history, and tectonic implications

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Restricted shallow-water sedimentation of Early Archean stromatolitic and evaporitic strata of the Strelley Pool Chert, Pilbara Block, Western Australia

scientific article published in January 1983

Sediment Gravity Flows: II Depositional Models with Special Reference to the Deposits of High-Density Turbidity Currents

scientific article published in 1982

Sedimentology of the Middle Marker (3.4 Ga), Onverwacht Group, Transvaal, South Africa

scientific article published in June 1982

Sedimentology of the ∼3.3Ga upper Mendon Formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

scientific article published in August 2016

Slurry-flow deposits in the Britannia Formation (Lower Cretaceous), North Sea: a new perspective on the turbidity current and debris flow problem

scientific article published in February 2000

Spherule beds 3.47-3.24 billion years old in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa: a record of large meteorite impacts and their influence on early crustal and biological evolution

scientific article published on January 2003

Spinel from Archean impact spherules

scholarly article

Stable isotope and Rare Earth Element evidence for recent ironstone pods within the Archean Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa

scholarly article

Stratigraphic and sedimentological evidence bearing on structural repetition in early Archean rocks of the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa

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Stratigraphic evolution of a submarine channel–lobe complex system in a narrow fairway within the Magallanes foreland basin, Cerro Toro Formation, southern Chile

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Stratigraphy and sedimentology of an early Archean felsic volcanic sequence, eastern Pilbara Block, Western Australia, with special reference to the Duffer Formation and implications for crustal evolution

scientific article published in August 1989

Stratigraphy of the west-central part of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

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Stromatolites 3,400-Myr old from the Archean of Western Australia

scientific article published in Nature

Structural divisions and development of the west-central part of the Barberton Greenstone Belt

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Subaqueous liquefied and fluidized sediment flows and their deposits

scientific article published in June 1976

Subaqueous to subaerial Archean ultramafic phreatomagmatic volcanism, Kromberg Formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

Suspended-load fallout rate as an independent variable in the analysis of current structures

scientific article published in October 1988

Tectonic controls on atmospheric, climatic, and biological evolution 3.5–2.4Ga

scientific article published in October 2007

Textural trends in turbidites and slurry beds from the Oligocene flysch of the East Carpathians, Romania

scientific article

Texture-specific Si isotope variations in Barberton Greenstone Belt cherts record low temperature fractionations in early Archean seawater

scientific article published in February 2015

The Petrogenesis of Volcaniclastic Komatiites in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa: a Textural and Geochemical Study

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The influence of sediment recycling and basement composition on evolution of mudrock chemistry in the southwestern United States

scholarly article

Thermal history of the 3.5–3.2 Ga Onverwacht and Fig Tree Groups, Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa, inferred by Raman microspectroscopy of carbonaceous material

scientific article published in 2004

Timing of deposition and deformation of the Moodies Group (Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa): Very-high-resolution of Archaean surface processes

scholarly article

Two fundamentally different types of submarine canyons along the continental margin of Equatorial Guinea

Water escape structures in coarse-grained sediments

scientific article published in May 1975

Weathering and sediment generation in the Archean: An integrated study of the evolution of siliciclastic sedimentary rocks of the 3.2Ga Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

scientific article published on 15 December 2006

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