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Hoffman, P.F., Halverson, G.P., Domack, E.W., Husson, J.M., Higgins, J.A., and Schrag, D.P., 2007. Are basal Ediacaran (635 Ma) post-glacial "cap dolostones" diachronous? Earth and Planetary Science Letters 254, 114-131. Hoffman, P.F., 2007. The pillars of snowball Earth. EOS, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 88, 110. Halverson, G.P., Maloof, A.C., Schrag, D.P., Dudas, F.O., and Hurtgen, M., 2007. Stratigraphy and geochemistry of a ca 800 Ma negative carbon isotope interval in northeastern Svalbard. Chemical Geology 237, 5-27. Hurtgen, M.T., Halverson, G.P., Arthur, M.A., and Hoffman, P.F., 2006. Sulfur cycling in the aftermath of a 635-Ma snowball glaciation: Evidence for a syn-glacial sulfidic deep ocean. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 245, 551-570. Maloof, A.C., Halverson, G.P., Kirschvink, J.L., Schrag, D.P., Weiss, B.P., and Hoffman, P.F., 2006. Combined paleomagnetic, isotopic and stratigraphic evidence for true polar wander from the Neoproterozoic Akademikerbreen Group, Svalbard. Geological Society of America Bulletin 108, 1099-1124, doi: 10.1130/B25892.1. Hoffman, P.F. and Halverson, G.P., in press. Otavi Group of the Northern Platform and the Northern Margin Zone. In: The Handbook of Namibian Geology (R.McG. Miller, ed.), Geological Survey of Namibia, Windhoek. Maloof, A.C., Schrag, D.P., Crowley, J.L., and Bowring, S.A., 2005. An expanded record of Early Cambrian carbon cycling from the Anti-Atlas Margin, Morocco. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42 , 2195-2216. Hoffman, P.F., 2005. 28 th DeBeers Alex. Du Toit Memorial Lecture: On Cryogenian (Neoproterozoic) ice-sheet dynamics and the limitations of the glacial sedimentary record. South African Journal of Geology 108 , 557-576. Allen, P.A. and Hoffman, P.F., 2005. Extreme winds and waves in the aftermath of a Neoproterozoic glaciation. Nature 433 , 123-127. Allen, P.A. and Hoffman, P.F., 2005. Formation of Precambrian sediment ripples: Reply to D.J. Jerolmack and D. Mohrig. Nature , doi: 10.1038/nature04025. Halverson, G.P., Hoffman, P.F., Schrag, D.P., Maloof, A.C., and Rice, A.H.N., 2005. Toward a Neoproterozoic composite carbon-isotope record. Geological Society of America Bulletin 117 , 1181-1207, doi: 10.1130/B25630.1 Halverson, G.P., Maloof, A.C., and Hoffman, P.F., 2004. The Marinoan glaciation (Neoproterozoic) in northeast Svalbard. Basin Research 16 , 297-324, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2004.00234.x Higgins, J.A. & Schrag, D.P., 2003. Aftermath of a snowball Earth. Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geosystems 4 , 10.1029/2002GC000403. Maloof, A.C., Kellogg, J.B. & Anders, A.M., 2002. Neoproterozoic sand wedges: crack formation in frozen soils under diurnal forcing during a snowball Earth. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 204, 1-15. Halverson, G.P., Hoffman, P.F., Schrag, D.P. & Kaufman, J.A., 2002. A major perturbation of the carbon cycle before the Ghaub glaciation (Neoproterozoic) in Namibia: Prelude to snowball Earth? Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geosystems 3 , on-line 10.1029/2001GC000244. Hoffman, P.F., 2002. Carbonates bounding glacial deposits: Evidence for Snowball Earth episodes and greenhouse aftermaths in the Neoproterozoic Otavi Group of northern Namibia. Excursion Guide, 16 th International Sedimentological Conference , Auckland Park, South Africa, 39 p. Hoffman, P.F. & Schrag, D.P., 2002. The snowball Earth hypothesis: testing the limits of global change. Terra Nova 14 , 129-155. Hoffman, P.F., Halverson, G.P., and Grotzinger, J.P., 2002. Are Proterozoic cap carbonates and isotopic excursions a record of gas hydrate destabilization following Earth's coldest intervals? Comment and reply. Geology 30 , 286-288. Schrag, D.P., Berner, R.A., Hoffman, P.F., and Halverson, G.P., 2002. On the initiation of a snowball Earth. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 3 , 10.1029/2001GC000266. Schrag, D.P. and Hoffman, P.F., 2001. Life, geology and snowball Earth. Nature 409 , 306. Hoffman, P.F., 2000. Discussion: Vreeland Diamictites—Neoproterozoic glaciogenic slope deposits, Rocky Mountains, northeast British Columbia. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 48 , 360-363. Hoffman, P.F. & Schrag, D.P., 2000. Snowball Earth. Scientific American 282 , 68-75. Hoffman, P.F., 1999. The break-up of Rodinia, birth of Gondwana, true polar wander and the snowball Earth. Journal of African Earth Sciences 28 , 17-33. Hoffman, P.F. and Schrag, D.P., 1999. Response: Considering a Neoproterozoic snowball Earth. Science 284 online, http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/284/5417/1087a Hoffman, P.F., 1999. Snowball Earth theory still stands. Nature 400 , 708. Hoffman, P.F. and Maloof, A.C., 1999. Glaciation: the snowball theory still holds water. Nature 397 , 384. Hoffman, P.F. and E.H. Hartz, 1999. Large, coherent, submarine landslide associated with Pan-African foreland flexure. Geology 27 , 687-690. Hoffman, P.F., Kaufman, A.J., Halverson, G.P. & Schrag, D.P., 1998. A Neoproterozoic snowball Earth. Science 281 , 1342-46. Hoffman, P.F., Schrag, D.P., Halverson, G.P., and Kaufman, J.A., 1998. Response: An early Snowball Earth? Science 282 , 1645-1646. Hoffman, P.F., Kaufman, J.A. & Halverson, G.P., 1998. Comings and goings of global glaciations on a Neoproterozoic carbonate platform in Namibia. GSA Today 8 ,1-9. Hoffman, P.F., 1997. Tectonic genealogy of North America. In Earth Structure: an Introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics, ed. B.A. van der Pluijm and S. Marshak, 459-464. New York: McGraw-Hill. Hoffman, P.F., and Grotzinger, J.P., 1993. Orographic precipitation, erosional unloading, and tectonic style. Geology 25, 195-198. Hoffman, P.F., 1992. Supercontinents. In: Encyclopedia of Earth System Science. Academic Press, London, 4, 323-328. Hoffman, P.F., 1992. North America: Geologic history. In The New Encyclopedia Britannica 24 (Macropedia), 998-1007, Britannica Press, Chicago. Hoffman, P.F., 1991. Did the breakout of Laurentia turn Gondwanaland inside-out? Science 252, 1409-1412. Hoffman, P.F., 1991. On accretion of granite-greenstone terranes. In Greenstone Gold and Crustal Evolution (eds. F. Robert, P.A. Sheahan and S.B. Green), pp.32-45. Geol. Assoc. Can., St. John's, Newfoundland. Hoffman, P.F., 1990. Geological constraints on the origin of the mantle root beneath the Canadian shield. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. (London), Ser. A 331, 523-532. Hoffman, P.F., 1990. Subdivision of the Churchill province and extent of the Trans-Hudson orogen. In The Early Proterozoic Trans-Hudson Orogen of North America (ed. J.F. Lewry and M.R. Stauffer), Geol. Soc. Can. Spec. Pap. 37, 15-38. Hoffman, P.F., 1989. Pethei reef complex (1.9 Ga), Great Slave Lake, N.W.T. In Reefs: Canada and Adjacent Areas (eds. H.H. Geldsetzer, N.P. James, and G.E. Tebbutt), Can Soc. Petrol. Geol. Mem. 13, 38-48. Hoffman, P.F. and Grotzinger, J.P. 1989. Abner/Denault reef complex (2.1 Ga), Labrador Trough, NE Quebec, In Reefs: Canada and Adjacent Areas (eds. H.H. Geldsetzer, N.P. James, and G.E. Tebbutt), Can Soc. Petrol. Geol. Mem. 13, 49-54. Hoffman, P.F., 1989. Speculations on Laurentia's first gigayear (2.0-1.0 Ga). Geology 17, 135-138. Hoffman, P.F., 1989. Precambrian geology and tectonic history of North America. In The Geology of North America: An O verview (eds. A.W. Bally and A.R. Palmer), pp.447-511, Geological Society of America, Boulder. Hoffman, P.F. and Ranalli, G., 1988. Archean oceanic flake tectonics. Geophys. Res. Lett. 15, 1077-1080. Hoffman, P.F., 1987. Early Proterozoic foredeeps, foredeep magmatism and Superior-type iron-formations of the Canadian Shield, Kro¨ner, A., ed., Proterozoic Lithospheric Evolution: American Geophysical Union Geodynamics Series, 17, 85-98. Hoffman, P.F., 1985. Is the Cape Smith belt (northern Quebec) a klippe? Can. J. Earth Sci. 22, 1361-1369. Hoffman, P.F., 1980. Wopmay orogen: A Wilson cycle of Early Proterozoic age in the northwest of the Canadian shield. In Continental Crust and Its Mineral Deposits, ed. Strangway, D.W., Geol. Assoc. Can. Spec. Pap. 20, 523-549. Hoffman, P.F., 1974. Shallow and deepwater stromatolites in an Early Proterozoic platform-to-basin facies change. Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories. Am. Assoc. Petrol. Geol. Bull. 58, 856-867. Hoffman, P.F., 1973. Evolution of an early Proterozoic continental margin: The Coronation geosyncline and associated aulacogens, northwest Canadian shield. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. (London) A273, 547-581. |
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