Although most banded iron formations probably accumulated during or after cyanobacteria began suffusing oxygen throughout the seas, some of the formations — albeit ones substantially smaller ...

Scientists have demonstrated that a new geochemical archive -- 182-Tungsten in banded iron formations -- can be used to simultaneously trace both the evolution of the Earth's mantle and continents ...

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It can be seen today, for example, as banded iron ore in South Africa. Phys.org. Some microbes used poison gas in battle for iron in the Earth's early oceans, geomicrobiologists find.

The banded iron formation, located in western China, has been conclusively dated as Cambrian in age. Approximately 527 million years old, this formation is young by comparison to the majority of ...

Metamorphic rocks. Broken Hill, ... Banded iron formation is exciting because it no longer forms on Earth today, meaning it records an ancient process that we no longer see happening.