Searching for an oxygenation event in the fossiliferous Ediacaran of northwestern Canada

• Published in: Chemical Geology
• Main Authors: Johnston, DT, Poulton, SW, Tosca, NJ, O'Brien, T, Halverson, GP, Schrag, DP, Macdonald, FA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2013
• Subjects: Canada; Ogilvie; Ogilvie Mountains; Wernecke; Wernecke Mountains; Yukon; Mackenzie mountains
• Online Access: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/80331/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/80331/1/Searching%20for%20an%20oxygenation%20event%20in%20the%20fossiliferous%20Ediacaran%20of%20northwestern%20Canada.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.08.046

Late Neoproterozoic (Ediacaran) strata from northwestern Canada provide a thick and rich sedimentological record, preserving intercalated carbonates and shale extending from the ~635million year old Marinoan glacial deposits up through the ~541million year old Precambrian-Cambrian boundary. This reg...