List of works - Maarten de Wit

3.5-Ga hydrothermal fields and diamictites in the Barberton Greenstone Belt-Paleoarchean crust in cold environments

scientific article

3.5billion years of reshaped Moho, southern Africa

article

A proposed drainage evolution model for Central Africa—Did the Congo flow east?

scholarly article

A vestige of Earth's oldest ophiolite

scientific article published on 01 March 2007

Age and tectonic evolution of Neoproterozoic ductile shear zones in the Southern Granulite Terrain of India, with implications for Gondwana studies

scientific article published on 28 May 2004

Archaean greenstone belt tectonism and basin development: some insights from the Barberton and Pietersburg greenstone belts, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa

scholarly article

Assessing the reactivation potential of pre-existing fractures in the southern Karoo, South Africa: Evaluating the potential for sustainable exploration across its Critical Zone

scholarly article

Censorship in geology?

scientific article published in Nature

Changes in surface water supply across Africa with predicted climate change

scientific article

Comment and Reply on "Pb-Zn ore deposits of the northern Caledonides: Products of continental-scale fluid mixing and tectonic expulsion during continental collision"

scientific article

Comparing petrographic signatures of bioalteration in recent to Mesoarchean pillow lavas: Tracing subsurface life in oceanic igneous rocks

article by Harald Furnes et al published October 2007 in Precambrian Research

Crustal thickness, discontinuity depth, and upper mantle structure beneath southern Africa: constraints from body wave conversions

scientific article

Cryptic Diversity of African Tigerfish (Genus Hydrocynus) Reveals Palaeogeographic Signatures of Linked Neogene Geotectonic Events ⬇️

scientific article published on December 14, 2011

Deciphering Earth's Deep History: Drilling in Africa's Oldest Greenstone Belt

Do graded units of accretionary spheroids in the Barberton Greenstone Belt indicate Archaean deep water environment?

scientific article published in Nature

Drilling for the Archean Roots of Life and Tetonic Earth in the Barberton Mountains

scientific article published in 2009

Early Archean fossil bacteria and biofilms in hydrothermally-influenced sediments from the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa

article

Early life recorded in archean pillow lavas

scientific article published on April 2004

Early traces of life investigations in drilling Archean hydrothermal and sedimentary rocks of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia and Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

scientific article (publication date: October 2009)

Event stratigraphy of Gondwana keynote papers

scholarly article

Facies Analyses, Chronostratigraphy and Paleo-Environmental Reconstructions of Jurassic to Cretaceous Sequences of the Congo Basin

academic chapter

Facies analyses and depositional environments of the Mio-Pliocene Alexandria Formation, Algoa Basin, South Africa

scholarly article

Formation and Collapse of the Kalahari Duricrust [‘African Surface’] Across the Congo Basin, with Implications for Changes in Rates of Cenozoic Off-Shore Sedimentation

academic chapter

Formation of an Archaean continent

scientific article published in Nature

Fossil marginal basin in the southern Andes

scientific article published in Nature

Geochemistry across an exposed section of Archaean crust at Vredefort, South Africa: with implications for mid-crustal discontinuities

scholarly article

Geochronology and correlations in the Central African Fold Belt along the northern edge of the Congo Craton: New insights from U-Pb dating of zircons from Cameroon, Central African Republic, and south-western Chad

scientific article published in 2022

Gondwana-10Alex du Toit Symposium event stratigraphy of Gondwana

scholarly article

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

scientific article published in January 2004

Isua supracrustal belt (Greenland)—A vestige of a 3.8 Ga suprasubduction zone ophiolite, and the implications for Archean geology

article

Late Permian global coal hiatus linked to 13C-depleted CO2 flux into the atmosphere during the final consolidation of Pangea

scientific article published in 1995

Late Permian global coal hiatus linked to 13C-depleted CO2 flux into the atmosphere during the final consolidation of Pangea: Comment and Reply

scholarly article

Mesozoic exhumation of the southern Cape, South Africa, quantified using apatite fission track thermochronology

article

Micro-bioerosion in volcanic glass: extending the ichnofossil record to Archaean basaltic crust

scholarly article

Multiphase Phanerozoic Subsidence and Uplift History Recorded in the Congo Basin: A Complex Successor Basin

academic chapter

New Regional Correlations Between the Congo, Paraná and Cape-Karoo Basins of Southwest Gondwana

academic chapter

Oceanic Pillow Lavas and Hyaloclastites as Habitats for Microbial Life Through Time – A Review

article

Old inherited origin for the present near-bimodal topography of Africa

scholarly article

On the Origin and Deformation of the Fleur de Lys Metaconglomerate, Appalachian Fold Belt, Northwest Newfoundland

scientific article

Palaeomagnetism of Archaean rocks of the Onverwacht Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt (southern Africa): Evidence for a stable and potentially reversing geomagnetic field at ca. 3.5Ga

scientific article (publication date: February 2011)

Paleogeography and Tectono-Stratigraphy of Carboniferous-Permian and Triassic ‘Karoo-Like’ Sequences of the Congo Basin

academic chapter

Platinum group elements in a 3.5 Ga nickel-iron occurrence: Possible evidence of a deep mantle origin

scientific article published in 1989

Precambrian Basement of the Congo Basin and Its Flanking Terrains

academic chapter

Preservation of ∼3.4–3.5 Ga microbial biomarkers in pillow lavas and hyaloclastites from the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

scientific article published in January 2006

Relation between the Gondwanide Orogen and contemporaneous intracratonic deformation

scholarly article

Scent of a supercontinent: Gondwana's ores as chemical tracers—tin, tungsten and the Neoproterozoic Laurentia-Gondwana connection

scholarly article

South African speleothems reveal influence of high- and low-latitude forcing over the past 113.5 k.y

scientific article

Strong rocks sustain ancient postorogenic topography in southern Africa

article

Structural and metamorphic relationships of pre-Fleur de Lys and Fleur de Lys rocks of the Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland

scholarly article

Subduction and terrane collision stabilize the western Kaapvaal craton tectosphere 2.9 billion years ago

scientific article published in May 2004

Subduction of continental lithosphere in the Banda Sea region: Combining evidence from full waveform tomography and isotope ratios

article

The Jamestown Ophiolite Complex, Barberton mountain belt: a section through 3.5 Ga oceanic crust

scientific article published in January 1987

Timing and Development of the Orthotectonic Zone in the Appalachian Orogen of Northwest Newfoundland

scientific article

Towards defining a baseline status of scarce groundwater resources in anticipation of hydraulic fracturing in the Eastern Cape Karoo, South Africa: salinity, aquifer yields and groundwater levels

scholarly article published on 8 May 2018

Volcanic risk perception in rural communities along the slopes of mount Cameroon, West-Central Africa

scholarly article

‘Africa Alive Corridors’: Forging a new future for the people of Africa by the people of Africa

scholarly article

List of works by Maarten de Wit

3.5-Ga hydrothermal fields and diamictites in the Barberton Greenstone Belt-Paleoarchean crust in cold environments

3.5billion years of reshaped Moho, southern Africa

A proposed drainage evolution model for Central Africa—Did the Congo flow east?

A vestige of Earth's oldest ophiolite

Age and tectonic evolution of Neoproterozoic ductile shear zones in the Southern Granulite Terrain of India, with implications for Gondwana studies

Archaean greenstone belt tectonism and basin development: some insights from the Barberton and Pietersburg greenstone belts, Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa

Assessing the reactivation potential of pre-existing fractures in the southern Karoo, South Africa: Evaluating the potential for sustainable exploration across its Critical Zone

Censorship in geology?

Changes in surface water supply across Africa with predicted climate change

Comment and Reply on "Pb-Zn ore deposits of the northern Caledonides: Products of continental-scale fluid mixing and tectonic expulsion during continental collision"

Comparing petrographic signatures of bioalteration in recent to Mesoarchean pillow lavas: Tracing subsurface life in oceanic igneous rocks

Crustal thickness, discontinuity depth, and upper mantle structure beneath southern Africa: constraints from body wave conversions

Cryptic Diversity of African Tigerfish (Genus Hydrocynus) Reveals Palaeogeographic Signatures of Linked Neogene Geotectonic Events ⬇️

Deciphering Earth's Deep History: Drilling in Africa's Oldest Greenstone Belt

Do graded units of accretionary spheroids in the Barberton Greenstone Belt indicate Archaean deep water environment?

Drilling for the Archean Roots of Life and Tetonic Earth in the Barberton Mountains

Early Archean fossil bacteria and biofilms in hydrothermally-influenced sediments from the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa

Early life recorded in archean pillow lavas

Early traces of life investigations in drilling Archean hydrothermal and sedimentary rocks of the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia and Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

Event stratigraphy of Gondwana keynote papers

Facies Analyses, Chronostratigraphy and Paleo-Environmental Reconstructions of Jurassic to Cretaceous Sequences of the Congo Basin

Facies analyses and depositional environments of the Mio-Pliocene Alexandria Formation, Algoa Basin, South Africa

Formation and Collapse of the Kalahari Duricrust [‘African Surface’] Across the Congo Basin, with Implications for Changes in Rates of Cenozoic Off-Shore Sedimentation

Formation of an Archaean continent

Fossil marginal basin in the southern Andes

Geochemistry across an exposed section of Archaean crust at Vredefort, South Africa: with implications for mid-crustal discontinuities

Geochronology and correlations in the Central African Fold Belt along the northern edge of the Congo Craton: New insights from U-Pb dating of zircons from Cameroon, Central African Republic, and south-western Chad

Gondwana-10Alex du Toit Symposium event stratigraphy of Gondwana

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

Isua supracrustal belt (Greenland)—A vestige of a 3.8 Ga suprasubduction zone ophiolite, and the implications for Archean geology

Late Permian global coal hiatus linked to 13C-depleted CO2 flux into the atmosphere during the final consolidation of Pangea

Late Permian global coal hiatus linked to 13C-depleted CO2 flux into the atmosphere during the final consolidation of Pangea: Comment and Reply

Mesozoic exhumation of the southern Cape, South Africa, quantified using apatite fission track thermochronology

Micro-bioerosion in volcanic glass: extending the ichnofossil record to Archaean basaltic crust

Multiphase Phanerozoic Subsidence and Uplift History Recorded in the Congo Basin: A Complex Successor Basin

New Regional Correlations Between the Congo, Paraná and Cape-Karoo Basins of Southwest Gondwana

Oceanic Pillow Lavas and Hyaloclastites as Habitats for Microbial Life Through Time – A Review

Old inherited origin for the present near-bimodal topography of Africa

On the Origin and Deformation of the Fleur de Lys Metaconglomerate, Appalachian Fold Belt, Northwest Newfoundland

Palaeomagnetism of Archaean rocks of the Onverwacht Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt (southern Africa): Evidence for a stable and potentially reversing geomagnetic field at ca. 3.5Ga

Paleogeography and Tectono-Stratigraphy of Carboniferous-Permian and Triassic ‘Karoo-Like’ Sequences of the Congo Basin

Platinum group elements in a 3.5 Ga nickel-iron occurrence: Possible evidence of a deep mantle origin

Precambrian Basement of the Congo Basin and Its Flanking Terrains

Preservation of ∼3.4–3.5 Ga microbial biomarkers in pillow lavas and hyaloclastites from the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

Relation between the Gondwanide Orogen and contemporaneous intracratonic deformation

Scent of a supercontinent: Gondwana's ores as chemical tracers—tin, tungsten and the Neoproterozoic Laurentia-Gondwana connection

South African speleothems reveal influence of high- and low-latitude forcing over the past 113.5 k.y

Strong rocks sustain ancient postorogenic topography in southern Africa

Structural and metamorphic relationships of pre-Fleur de Lys and Fleur de Lys rocks of the Baie Verte Peninsula, Newfoundland

Subduction and terrane collision stabilize the western Kaapvaal craton tectosphere 2.9 billion years ago

Subduction of continental lithosphere in the Banda Sea region: Combining evidence from full waveform tomography and isotope ratios

The Jamestown Ophiolite Complex, Barberton mountain belt: a section through 3.5 Ga oceanic crust

Timing and Development of the Orthotectonic Zone in the Appalachian Orogen of Northwest Newfoundland

Towards defining a baseline status of scarce groundwater resources in anticipation of hydraulic fracturing in the Eastern Cape Karoo, South Africa: salinity, aquifer yields and groundwater levels

Volcanic risk perception in rural communities along the slopes of mount Cameroon, West-Central Africa

‘Africa Alive Corridors’: Forging a new future for the people of Africa by the people of Africa