Oncoidal granular iron formation in the Mesoarchaean Pongola Supergroup, southern Africa: Textural and geochemical evidence for biological activity during iron deposition
ankerite
; aragonite
; Archean
; bioactivity
; deposition
; dolomite
; geochemistry
; granular medium
; iron
; mass spectrometry
; microbial activity
; ooid
; rare earth element
; recrystallization
; texture
; KwaZulu-Natal
; Pongola
; South Africa
Scopus学科分类:
Earth and Planetary Sciences: General Earth and Planetary Sciences
; Environmental Science: General Environmental Science
; Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematic
Paleoproterozoic Mineralization Research Group, Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa; Department of Science and Technology – National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence for Integrated Mineral and Energy Resource Analysis, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa; Department of Geology, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa; Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology, Freiberg, Germany; Department of Mineralogy, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany; Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, United States; Department of Geoscience, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States; NASA Astrobiology Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States; Geological Survey and Mines Department, Mbabane, Swaziland
Recommended Citation:
Smith A.J.B.,Beukes N.J.,Gutzmer J.,et al. Oncoidal granular iron formation in the Mesoarchaean Pongola Supergroup, southern Africa: Textural and geochemical evidence for biological activity during iron deposition[J]. Geobiology,2017-01-01,15(6)