Organic Geochemical and tectonic evolution of the Midcontinent Rift system

• Main Authors: Hayes, J. M., Pratt, L. M., Knoll, A. H.
• Other Authors: United States. Department of Energy.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN (United States) 1992
• Subjects: Usa; Plants 580000* > Geosciences; Paleontology; Rift Zones; Geology; Correlations; Fossils; Document Types; Progress Report; 58 Geosciences; North America; Tectonics; Geologic Structures; Palynology; Developed Countries; Stratigraphy; Algae; Arctic; Canada; Hayes
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2172/6431485; https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1208799/

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...