Jan Kramers

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported a suite of fine clastic sediments and black shales from the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa (Fig Tree and Moodies Groups, 3.25-3.15 Ga), the Belingwe Greenstone belt, Zimbabwe (Manjeri Formation, ca. 2.7 Ga) and shales of the Witwatersrand, Ventersdorp and Transvaal Supergroups, South African ranging from 2.95 to 2.2 Ga.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a dual approach to resolve the terrestrial evolution of the Sm-Nd system: a critically reviewed compilation of Precambrian Nd initial isotope ratios and, independently, a forward modelling effort of the Nd isotopic development of the upper mantle.

TL;DR: A set of high-quality paleoclimate records from across the Northern Hemisphere shows evidence for a widespread and significant climatic anomaly at ∼9.2 ka B.P. as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Bone taphonomy indicates that hominin individuals reached the chamber complete, with disarticulation occurring during/after deposition, and preliminary evidence is consistent with deliberate body disposal in a single location, by ahominin species other than Homo sapiens, at an as-yet unknown date.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the age and PT conditions of strike-slip tectonism along the important right-lateral triangle shearzone and showed that the Triangle Shearzone can now be regarded as an important Proterozoic suture.