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Testing models of pre-GOE environmental oxidation : a Paleoproterozoic marine signal in platform dolomites of the Tongwane Formation (South Africa)

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08/2018
Author
Warke, Matthew R.
Schröder, Stefan
Strauss, Harald
Keywords
Tongwane Formation
Transvaal Supergroup
Great Oxidation Event
Cerium anomalies
Carbon isotopes
QE Geology
NDAS
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Abstract
Carbonate facies of the upper Tongwane Formation preserve a largely overlooked record of pre-GOE Paleoproterozoic seawater. This inventory has survived despite a complex paragenetic history involving both diagenetic and contact metamorphic processes. BIF mineral assemblages are dominated by a medium-grade grunerite overprint and the formation of prograde and retrograde riebeckite. The massive dolomite member, a platform top carbonate which caps the succession, is characterized by marine REYSN patterns lacking significant negative CeSN anomalies (<10%) and δ13Ccarb values of between +1.83 and +2.95 ‰VPDB that are slightly elevated above Paleoproterozoic ‘normal marine’ values. Systematically decreasing δ13Ccarb values measured in monotonously recrystallized, talc bearing, slope carbonates reflect interaction with devolatilization fluids during contact metamorphism caused by the intrusion of the Bushveld Igneous Complex; slope carbonates offer no insight into marine paleoredox conditions. Thus, despite contact metamorphism, Paleoproterozoic marine signals are retained in platform-top dolomites, however they do not support claims for widespread oxygen accumulation in shallow depositional environments of the Transvaal Basin on the eve of the GOE.
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Warke , M R , Schröder , S & Strauss , H 2018 , ' Testing models of pre-GOE environmental oxidation : a Paleoproterozoic marine signal in platform dolomites of the Tongwane Formation (South Africa) ' , Precambrian Research , vol. 313 , pp. 205-220 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2018.04.015
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Precambrian Research
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2018.04.015
ISSN
0301-9268
Type
Journal article
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© 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0/).
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MRW was supported by a NERC-studentship through the University of Manchester. SS was supported through a Strategy Grant of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Manchester.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13568

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