Organic Geochemical and tectonic evolution of the Midcontinent Rift system

• Main Authors: Hayes, J.M., Pratt, L.M. ), Knoll, A.H. . Dept. of Organismal and Evolutionary Biology)
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: 58 GEOSCIENCES; ALGAE; PALEONTOLOGY; CORRELATIONS; FOSSILS; PALYNOLOGY; PROGRESS REPORT; RIFT ZONES; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; USA; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DOCUMENT TYPES; GEOLOGIC STRUCTURES; GEOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; PLANTS; Arctic; Canada; Hayes
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6431485; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6431485; https://doi.org/10.2172/6431485

The older assemblages stand in contrast with the ca. 1000 Ma old Hunting Formation, Arctic Canada, which contains what may be the oldest evidence for modem algae - red algal fossils that compare closely with members of the extant family Bangiophyceae (Butterfield et al., 1990). Taken together the No...