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| Bankole, Olabode M.; El Albani, Abderrazak; Meunier, Alain; Rouxel, Olivier; Gauthier-lafaye, Francois; Bekker, Andrey. |
| Red beds are extensively used as evidence for an oxygenated atmosphere in the Paleoproterozoic. Red beds in the unmetamorphosed, ca. 2.15 Ga FA Formation of the Franceville Basin, Gabon were geochemically, petrographically, and mineralogically characterized to constrain the process of their formation and their relationship to atmospheric oxygenation in the early Paleoproterozoic. Petrographic observations indicate that ferric oxides are dispersed in clay filling intergranular pores and along platy cleavage in altered phyllosilicates. Grain-coating hematite is generally rare to absent in most samples suggesting hematite precipitation after sediment deposition and during burial diagenesis. Textures and geochemical data suggest that iron was likely sourced... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Red beds; Atmospheric oxygenation; Diagenesis; Iron isotopes; Franceville Basin; Oldest sandstone-type U deposit. |
| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00358/46966/48278.pdf |
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