The first paper presented in this dissertation attempts to examine the igneous history of the younger suite of Harohalli alkaline dykes intruding the Dharwar craton in southern India providing robust constraints on the age of the Harohalli alkaline dyke swarm paleomagnetic pole …
The Salalah Crystalline Basement (SCB) is the largest Precambrian exposure in Oman located on the southern margin of the Arabian Plate at the Arabian Sea shore. This work used remote sensing, detailed structural analysis and the analysis of ten samples using 40 Ar/39 Ar age dati…
In the Sichuan Basin and surrounding areas, the terminal Ediacaran Dengying Formation hosts diverse microbialite forms. Interest in this formation has mainly centered around oil and gas reservoir development, but recent research aims to characterize its paleobiology via petrogra…
Fossilized microorganisms (microfossils) preserved within Precambrian sedimentary rocks represent a vital source of evidence for early life on Earth, and studies of such microfossils and the organic matter (kerogen) of which they are typically composed have helped guide the mode…