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Simple story of “BIFs”
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Answering All Your Banded Iron Formation Questions - Deep Dive
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- 1 Intro to BIF Expert, Josh
- 2 Are banded iron formations the most debated?
- 3 Simple story of “BIFs”
- 4 Oldest BIFs
- 5 Superior vs Algoma BIFs
- 6 Why/how BIFs formed billions of years ago
- 7 Why are they banded? pt 1
- 8 Deep water BIFs?
- 9 Other ways to form BIFs without oxygen
- 10 Microbes & BIFs relationship?
- 11 thickness & cyclicity of layers?
- 12 Secondary alteration affects banding
- 13 What does each layer represent?
- 14 Layers are potentially cyclic!
- 15 How much time does each layer represent?
- 16 Formation of layers at the seafloor?
- 17 Role of Earth’s orbit on the banding
- 18 Role of sulfur on the banding
- 19 Why the banding is likely not all secondary
- 20 Small cycles inside larger cycles!
- 21 Are BIFs extinct?
- 22 Youngest BIFs
- 23 Could Earth go back to BIF-forming conditions?
- 24 BIFs & cap carbonates?
- 25 BIF vs deep sea nodules?
- 26 Alternative hypothesis to BIF banding- greenalite
- 27 Diverse minerals in BIFs
- 28 Gray vs red bands?
- 29 How to recognize BIF in the field
- 30 Are there extraterrestrial BIFs?
