CV & Publications

Peer-reviewed publications:

In press:

Ma J., Shi X., Lechte, M., Zhou X., Wang Z., Huang K., Rudmin, M., Tang D. (2021) Marine authigenic glauconite–berthierine supports enhanced reverse weathering in the Mesoproterozoic. American Mineralogist

2021:

Hood, A.vS., Penman, D., Lechte, M., Wallace, M., Giddings, J., Planavsky, N. (2021) Neoproterozoic syn-glacial carbonate precipitation and implications for a snowball Earth. Geobiology. doi: 10.1111/gbi.12470.
Wei B., Tang D., Shi X., Lechte, M., Zhou L., Zhou X. and Song H., 2021. A pulsed oxygenation in terminal Paleoproterozoic ocean: Evidence from the transition between the Chuanlinggou and Tuanshanzi formations, North China. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 22(5), doi: p.e2020GC009612.
Maloney, K.M., Halverson, G.P., Schiffbauer, J.D., Xiao, S., Gibson, T.M., Lechte, M.A., Cumming, V.M., Millikin, A.E., Murphy, J.G., Wallace, M.W. and Selby, D., 2021. New multicellular marine macroalgae from the early Tonian of northwestern Canada. Geology, 49(6), doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G48508.1

2020:

Fang H., Tang, D., Shi X., Lechte, M., Shang M., Zhou X., Yu W. (2020) Manganese-rich deposits in the Mesoproterozoic Gaoyuzhuang Formation (ca. 1.58 Ga), North China platform: Genesis and paleoenvironmental implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109966
O'Connell, B., Wallace, M.W., van Smeerdijk Hood, A., Lechte, M.A. & Planavsky, N.J. (2019) Iron-rich carbonate tidal deposits, Angepena Formation, South Australia: A redox-stratified Cryogenian basin. Precambrian Research, doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105668
Tang D., Ma J., Shi X., Lechte, M. & Zhou X. (2020) The formation of marine red beds and iron cycling on the Mesoproterozoic North China Platform. American Mineralogist.

2019:

Lechte, M.A., Wallace, M.W., van Smeerdijk Hood, A., Li, W., Jiang, G., Halverson, G.P., Asael, D., McColl, S.L. & Planavsky, N.J. (2019) Subglacial meltwater supported aerobic marine habitats during Snowball Earth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1909165116
Wei G., Ling H.-F., Shields, G., Chen T., Lechte, M., Chen X., Qiu C., Lei H. & Zhu M. (2019) Long-term evolution of terrestrial inputs from the Ediacaran to early Cambrian: clues from Nd isotopes in shallow-marine carbonates, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109367

2018:

Lechte, M.A., Wallace, M.W., van Smeerdijk Hood, A. & Planavsky, N. (2018) Cryogenian iron formations in the glaciogenic Kingston Peak Formation, California. Precambrian Research, 310, p.443-462, doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2018.04.003

Lechte, M.A., Wallace, M.W. & Hoffmann, K.H. (2018) Glacio-marine iron formation deposition in a c. 700 Ma glaciated margin: insights from the Chuos Formation, Namibia. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, SP475-2, doi: 10.1144/SP475.2
Busigny, V., Planavsky, N.J., Goldbaum, E., Lechte, M.A., Feng, L. & Lyons, T.W. (2018) Origin of the Neoproterozoic Fulu iron formation, South China: Insights from iron isotopes and rare earth element patterns. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 242, p.123-142, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2018.09.006

2016:

Lechte, M. & Wallace, M. (2016) Sub–ice shelf ironstone deposition during the Neoproterozoic Sturtian glaciation. Geology, 44(11), p.891-894, doi: 10.1130/G38495.1

2015:

Lechte, M.A. & Wallace, M.W. (2015) Sedimentary and tectonic history of the Holowilena Ironstone, a Neoproterozoic iron formation in South Australia. Sedimentary Geology, 329, p.211-224, doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.09.014

PhD Thesis:
Cryogenian iron formations: glaciation and oxygenation
School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne (2019)
Supervisors: A/Prof Malcolm Wallace, Dr. Ashleigh van Smeerdijk Hood