Archean cherts in banded iron formation: Insight into Neoarchean ocean chemistry and depositional processes

2012 ◽  
Vol 214-215 ◽  
pp. 227-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
P.C. Thurston ◽  
B.S. Kamber ◽  
M. Whitehouse
Keyword(s):  
Iron Formation ◽  
Banded Iron Formation ◽  
Depositional Processes ◽  
Ocean Chemistry ◽  
Insight Into

Petrography and geochemistry of the Dales Gorge banded iron formation: Paragenetic sequence, source and implications for palaeo-ocean chemistry

2009 ◽  
Vol 172 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 163-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Pecoits ◽  
M.K. Gingras ◽  
M.E. Barley ◽  
A. Kappler ◽  
N.R. Posth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iron Formation ◽  
Banded Iron Formation ◽  
Paragenetic Sequence ◽  
Ocean Chemistry

Chemostratigraphy of the Carajás banded iron formation, Brazil: A record of Neoarchean Ocean chemistry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro L.G. Martins ◽  
Catarina L.B. Toledo ◽  
Adalene M. Silva ◽  
Farid Chemale Jr ◽  
Corey Archer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Iron Formation ◽  
Banded Iron Formation ◽  
Ocean Chemistry

scholarly journals Using modern ferruginous habitats to interpret Precambrian banded iron formation deposition

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elif Koeksoy ◽  
Maximilian Halama ◽  
Kurt O. Konhauser ◽  
Andreas Kappler
Keyword(s):  
Depositional Environments ◽  
Iron Formation ◽  
Biogeochemical Processes ◽  
Banded Iron Formations ◽  
Banded Iron Formation ◽  
Depositional Processes ◽  
Microbiological Characteristics ◽  
Rock Record ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Iron Formations

AbstractEarly Earth processes are typically identified through the study of mineralogical, elemental and isotopic features in the rock record, including Precambrian banded iron formations (BIF). However, post-depositional processes often obscure the primary geochemical signals, making the use of BIF as proxies for paleo-seawater and the paleo-biosphere potentially imprecise. Thus, alternative approaches are required to complement the information gained from the rock record in order to fully understand the distinctive biogeochemical processes on ancient Earth. Simulating these conditions in the laboratory is one approach, but this approach can never fully replicate the complexity of a natural environment. Therefore, finding modern environments with a unique set of geochemical and microbiological characteristics to use as analogues for BIF depositional environments can provide invaluable information. In this review, we provide an overview of the chemical, physical and biological parameters of modern, ferruginous lakes that have been used as analogue BIF environments.

Earth’s Middle Ages: What Came after the GOE

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Eugene Canfield
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Organic Carbon ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Atmospheric Oxygen ◽  
Iron Formation ◽  
Banded Iron Formation ◽  
Dissolved Iron ◽  
Great Oxidation Event ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Substantial Rise

This chapter considers the aftermath of the great oxidation event (GOE). It suggests that there was a substantial rise in oxygen defining the GOE, which may, in turn have led to the Lomagundi isotope excursion, which was associated with high rates of organic matter burial and perhaps even higher concentrations of oxygen. This excursion was soon followed by a crash in oxygen to very low levels and a return to banded iron formation deposition. When the massive amounts of organic carbon buried during the excursion were brought into the weathering environment, they would have represented a huge oxygen sink, drawing down levels of atmospheric oxygen. There appeared to be a veritable seesaw in oxygen concentrations, apparently triggered initially by the GOE. The GOE did not produce enough oxygen to oxygenate the oceans. Dissolved iron was removed from the oceans not by reaction with oxygen but rather by reaction with sulfide. Thus, the deep oceans remained anoxic and became rich in sulfide, instead of becoming well oxygenated.

A new volcanic province: evidence from glacial erratics in western North Greenland

2000 ◽  
pp. 35-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter R. Dawes ◽  
Bjørn Thomassen ◽  
T.I. Hauge Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Iron Formation ◽  
Banded Iron Formation ◽  
Common Component ◽  
Volcanic Province ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Surficial Deposits ◽  
North Greenland

NOTE: This article was published in a former series of GEUS Bulletin. Please use the original series name when citing this article, for example: Dawes, P. R., Thomassen, B., & Andersson, T. H. (2000). A new volcanic province: evidence from glacial erratics in western North Greenland. Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, 186, 35-41. https://doi.org/10.34194/ggub.v186.5213 _______________ Mapping and regional geological studies in northern Greenland were carried out during the project Kane Basin 1999 (see Dawes et al. 2000, this volume). During ore geological studies in Washington Land by one of us (B.T.), finds of erratics of banded iron formation (BIF) directed special attention to the till, glaciofluvial and fluvial sediments. This led to the discovery that in certain parts of Daugaard-Jensen Land and Washington Land volcanic rocks form a common component of the surficial deposits, with particularly colourful, red porphyries catching the eye. The presence of BIF is interesting but not altogether unexpected since BIF erratics have been reported from southern Hall Land just to the north-east (Kelly & Bennike 1992) and such rocks crop out in the Precambrian shield of North-West Greenland to the south (Fig. 1; Dawes 1991). On the other hand, the presence of volcanic erratics was unexpected and stimulated the work reported on here.

scholarly journals Serpentine–Hisingerite Solid Solution in Altered Ferroan Peridotite and Olivine Gabbro

Minerals ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Tutolo ◽  
Bernard Evans ◽  
Scott Kuehner
Keyword(s):  
Iron Formation ◽  
Olivine Gabbro ◽  
Banded Iron Formation ◽  
Silicate System ◽  
Duluth Complex ◽  
Sheet Silicate ◽  
Structure Modulation ◽  
Compositional Variability ◽  
Common Observation ◽  
End Members

We present microanalyses of secondary phyllosilicates in altered ferroan metaperidotite, containing approximately equal amounts of end-members serpentine ((Mg,Fe2+)3Si2O5(OH)4) and hisingerite (□Fe3+2Si2O5(OH)4·nH2O). These analyses suggest that all intermediate compositions can exist stably, a proposal that was heretofore impossible because phyllosilicate with the compositions reported here have not been previously observed. In samples from the Duluth Complex (Minnesota, USA) containing igneous olivine Fa36–44, a continuous range in phyllosilicate compositions is associated with hydrothermal Mg extraction from the system and consequent relative enrichments in Fe2+, Fe3+ (hisingerite), Si, and Mn. Altered ferroan–olivine-bearing samples from the Laramie Complex (Wyoming, USA) show a compositional variability of secondary FeMg–phyllosilicate (e.g., Mg–hisingerite) that is discontinuous and likely the result of differing igneous olivine compositions and local equilibration during alteration. Together, these examples demonstrate that the products of serpentinization of ferroan peridotite include phyllosilicate with iron contents proportionally larger than the reactant olivine, in contrast to the common observation of Mg-enriched serpentine in “traditional” alpine and seafloor serpentinites. To augment and contextualize our analyses, we additionally compiled greenalite and hisingerite analyses from the literature. These data show that greenalite in metamorphosed banded iron formation contains progressively more octahedral-site vacancies (larger apfu of Si) in higher XFe samples, a consequence of both increased hisingerite substitution and structure modulation (sheet inversions). Some high-Si greenalite remains ferroan and seems to be a structural analogue of the highly modulated sheet silicate caryopilite. Using a thermodynamic model of hydrothermal alteration in the Fe–silicate system, we show that the formation of secondary hydrothermal olivine and serpentine–hisingerite solid solutions after primary olivine may be attributed to appropriate values of thermodynamic parameters such as elevated a S i O 2 ( a q ) and decreased a H 2 ( a q ) at low temperatures (~200 °C). Importantly, recent observations of Martian rocks have indicated that they are evolved magmatically like the ferroan peridotites analyzed here, which, in turn, suggests that the processes and phyllosilicate assemblages recorded here are more directly relevant to those occurring on Mars than are traditional terrestrial serpentinites.

Cobalt-Bearing Grunerite in the Metamorphosed Banded Iron Formation in Orissa, India

2011 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prasanta Kumar NAYAK ◽  
Birendra Kumar MOHAPATRA ◽  
Prem Prakash SINGH ◽  
Ranjit Kumar MARTHA
Keyword(s):  
Iron Formation ◽  
Banded Iron Formation
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