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Partin, C.A. 2023. A tectonic context for fluctuations in late Paleoproterozoic oxygen content. In Whitmeyer, S.J., Williams, M.L., Kellett, D.A., and Tikoff, B. eds., Laurentia: Turning Points in the Evolution of a Continent, Geological Society of America, v. 220, doi:10.1130/2022.1220(07). Open access.

McDonald, B.^†, Partin, C.A., Sageman, B., Holmden, C. 2022. Uranium isotope reconstructions of ocean deoxygenation during OAE 2 hampered by uncertainties in both local fractionation factors and U-cycling. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 331: 143-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2022.05.010  

DeWolfe, Y.M., Knox, B., Lilley, S., MacMillan, E.J.^†, Partin, C.A. 2022. Volcanology, geochemistry and geodynamic setting of Neoarchean Sunrise volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit, Beaulieu River volcanic belt, Slave craton, Northwest Territories, Canada. Precambrian Research, 72: 106608. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106608 

Farrell, U.C., SGP Collaborative Team (103 authors including C.A. Partin). 2021. The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project. Geobiology, 19: 545– 556. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12462. 

Partin, C.A., DeWolfe, Y.M., Magee, T.^† 2021. Origin of sediment-hosted Pb-Zn mineralization in the Paleoproterozoic Mârmorilik and Qaarsukassak formations, Karrat Group, West Greenland. Ore Geology Reviews, 134: 104164. doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104164 

Spencer, C.J., Partin, C.A., Kirkland, C.L., Raub, T.D., Liebmann, J., Stern, R.A. 2019. Paleoproterozoic increase in zircon d¹⁸O driven by rapid emergence of continental crust. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 257: 16-25. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2019.04.016

von Gunten, K., Warchola, T., Donner, M., Cossio, M., Hao, W., Lloyd, J. Siddique, T., Partin, C.A., Flynn, S., Rosaasen, A., Konhauser, K.O., Alessi, D.S. 2018. Biogeochemistry of U, Ni, and As in two meromictic pit lakes at the Cluff Lake uranium mine, northern Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 55 (5): 463-474. doi: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2017-0149. Open access. 

Hoffman, P. F., Abbot, D. S., Ashkenazy, Y., Benn, D. I., Brocks, J. J., Cohen, P. A., Cox, G. M., Creveling, J. R., Donnadieu, Y., Erwin, D. H., Fairchild, I. J., Ferreira, D., Goodman, J. C., Halverson, G. P., Jansen, M. F., Le Hir, G., Love, G. D., Macdonald, F. A., Maloof, A. C., Partin, C. A., Ramstein, G., Rose, B. E. J., Rose, C. V., Sadler, P. M., Tziperman, E., Voigt, A., Warren, S. G. 2017. Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology–geobiology. Science Advances, 3 (11). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1600983

Konhauser, K.O., Planavsky, N.J., Hardisty, D.S., Robbins, L.J., Warchola, T.J., Haugaard, R., Lalonde, S.V., Partin, C.A., Oonk, P.B.H., Tsikos, H., Lyons, T.W., Bekker, A., Johnson, C.M., 2017. Iron formations: A global record of Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic environmental history. Earth-Science Reviews, 172: 140-177, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.06.012

Partin, C.A., Sadler, P.M., 2016, Slow net sediment accumulation sets snowball Earth apart from all younger glacial episodes. Geology, 44(12): 1019-1022, doi: 10.1130/G38350.1 (FREE DOWNLOAD).

Shiels, C.^†, Partin, C.A., Stern, R.A. 2017. An integrated U-Pb, Hf, and O isotopic provenance analysis of the Paleoproterozoic Murmac Bay Group, northern Saskatchewan, Canada. Precambrian Research, 302: 18-32.  doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2017.09.015.

Robbins, L.J., Lalonde, S.V., Planavsky, N.J., Partin, C.A., Reinhard, C.T., Kendall, B., Scott, C., Hardisty, D.S., Gill, B.C., Alessi, D.S., Dupont, C.L., Saito, M.A., Crowe, S.A., Poulton, S.W.  2016. Trace elements at the intersection of marine biological and geochemical evolution. Earth-Science Reviews, 163:323-348, doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.10.013.

Shiels, C.^†, Partin, C. A., Eglington, B.M. 2016. Provenance approaches in polydeformed metasedimentary successions: determining nearest neighboring cratons during the deposition of the Paleoproterozoic Murmac Bay Group. Lithosphere, 8 (5): 519, doi: 10.1130/L537.1

Partin, C.A., Sylvester, P.J., 2016, Variations in zircon Hf isotopes support earliest Proterozoic Wilson cycle tectonics on the Canadian Shield. Precambrian Research, v. 280, p. 279-289, doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2016.05.008

Guarnieri, P., Partin, C. A., Rosa, D. 2016. Palaeovalleys at the basal unconformity of the Palaeoproterozoic Karrat Group, West Greenland. Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin 35, 63–66. Open access: www.geus.dk/publications/bull

Chi Fru, E., Rodríguez, N.P., Partin,C. A.,  Lalonde, S., Andersson, P., Weiss, D., El Abani, A., Rodushkin, I., Konhauser, K.O., 2016, Cu isotopes in marine black shales record the Great Oxidation Event. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 (18): 4941- 4946, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1523544113. 

McDonald, B.^†, Partin, C.A., 2016, Is the Lomagundi Event present on the Rae craton? A case study from the Murmac Bay Group. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 53(5): 457-465, doi: 10.1139/cjes-2015-0186

Kendrick, K., Partin, C.A., Graham, R., 2016, Granitic boulder erosion caused by chaparral wildfire: Implications for cosmogenic radionuclide dating of bedrock surfaces: The Journal of Geology, 124, 529–539, doi: 10.1086/686273.

Partin, C.A., Bekker, A., Planavsky, N.J., Lyons, T.W., 2015, Euxinic conditions recorded in the ca. 1.93 Ga Bravo Lake Formation, Nunavut (Canada): Implications for oceanic redox evolution: Chemical Geology, v. 417, p. 148-162 doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.09.004.

Partin, C.A., Bekker, A., Corrigan, D., Modeland, S., Francis, D., Davis, D.W., 2014, Sedimentological and geochemical basin analysis of the Paleoproterozoic Penrhyn and Piling groups of Arctic Canada: Precambrian Research, v. 251, p. 80–101, doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2014.06.010.

Partin, C.A., Bekker, A., Sylvester, P.J., Wodicka, N., Stern, R.A., Chacko, T., Heaman, L.M., 2014, Filling in the juvenile magmatic gap: Evidence for uninterrupted Paleoproterozoic plate tectonics: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 388, p. 123–133, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.11.041.

Partin, C.A., Lalonde, S.V., Planavsky, N.J., Bekker, A., Rouxel, O.J., Lyons, T.W., Konhauser, K.O., 2013, Uranium in iron formations and the rise of atmospheric oxygen: Chemical Geology, v. 362, p. 82–90, doi: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.09.005.

Reinhard, C.T., Planavsky, N.J., Robbins, L.J., Partin, C.A., Gill, B.C., Lalonde, S.V., Bekker, A., Konhauser, K.O., Lyons, T.W., 2013, Proterozoic ocean redox and biogeochemical stasis: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, v. 110, p. 5357–5362, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1208622110.

Partin, C.A., Bekker, A., Planavsky, N.J., Scott, C.T., Gill, B.C., Li, C., Podkovyrov, V., Maslov, A., Konhauser, K.O., Lalonde, S.V., Love, G.D., Poulton, S.W., Lyons, T.W., 2013, Large-scale fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric and oceanic oxygen levels from the record of U in shales: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 369–370, p. 284–293, doi: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.03.031.

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