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Supporting Information Supporting Information Fischer et al. 10.1073/pnas.1322577111 Geological Context Campbellrand, and Asbestos Hills, make up the Transvaal The Late Archean Transvaal Supergroup occurs across much of Supergroup. These record the initial transgression of the Kaapvaal the Kaapvaal Craton, broadly divided into Griqualand West and Craton and development of a marine sedimentary ramp flanking Transvaal structural subbasins (Fig. S1). The succession is re- the basement highs, the flooding of the entire craton and the markably well preserved and largely undeformed across much of progradation of a thick carbonate platform, and drowning of the the craton. Steeper dips occur in the Transvaal subbasin around carbonate platform followed by iron-formation deposition, re- the Bushveld Igneous Complex, and acute folding and faulting spectively. The Vryburg Formation was deposited during the first appears along the far western edge of the craton where Prote- post-Ventersdorp marine transgression of the Kaapvaal Craton rozoic red beds of the Olifantshoek Group are thrust over in Griqualand West. Based on correlation with units in the Transvaal rocks (1–4). Significant metamorphism is limited lo- Transvaal Basin, the Vryburg was deposited between 2,642 ± cally to rocks in the Transvaal basin near the Bushveld complex 3 Ma and 2,664 ± 1 Ma (16, 17). The lower Vryburg consists and the western fold-and-thrust belt; other regions remained primarily of ripple-laminated sandstones that deepen upward below greenschist-equivalent facies (3, 5). However, surficial into organic-rich and pyritic shales and turbidites. The upper oxidative weathering is extensive in South Africa. To obtain fresh contact is gradational, with increasing carbonate content up unweathered material for analysis, we sampled from deep di- section that eventually gives way to the shallow water stroma- amond drill core materials taken northeast of Prieska in the tolites and oolitic grainstones of the Boomplas Formation. An- Northern Cape Province, South Africa as a part of the Agouron other transgression separates the top of the Boomplas from the Institute South African Drilling Project (Fig. S1). Core GKF01 low-energy organic-rich and pyritic shales of the Lokammona captures a diverse range of siliciclastic and authigenic lithologies Formation. Again, carbonate content increases toward the gra- (carbonates, shales, and banded iron formation) within a well- dational upper contact with the overlying Monteville Formation, studied sequence stratigraphic framework (6–8) that provides a steepened carbonate ramp that developed during presumed useful insight into the vectors of time and environment (Figs. S2 and S3). This succession has been studied extensively for its highstand. Following Monteville deposition, the entire Kaapvaal – Craton was flooded and followed by widespread carbonate de- sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, U Pb geochronology, ∼ – organic and carbonate C isotopes and contents (9), bulk rock position and development of the steep-margined 2,588 2,520 multiple S isotopes (10, 11), paleo- and rock magnetics (12), and Ma (17, 18) Campbellrand Platform, represented by the Lower bulk and trace element geochemistry (6, 13). Nauga/Reivilo and Upper Nauga formations. A major trans- The sedimentary geology of the Transvaal Supergroup in gression led to the eventual demise of the Campbellrand Plat- Griqualand West with special attention to relationships in GKF01 form and the deposition of the ∼2,460 Ma (19) Kuruman has been previously described (6–9, 14)—the observations im- Formation. Altogether the Transvaal Supergroup in Griqualand portant to this study are highlighted briefly here. The Transvaal West, during the development of Campbellrand platform and sits disconformably atop volcanics and intercalated sedimentary Kuruman Iron Formation, reflects the passive accumulation of rocks of the Ventersdorp Supergroup (felsic volcanics from the chemical precipitates and minor siliciclastics on thinned conti- upper Ventersdorp yielded a U–Pb ion microprobe age from nental crust adjacent to a major ocean basin in Late Archean zircon of 2.714 ± 8 Ma; ref. 15). Three subgroups, Schmidtsdrif, through earliest Paleoproterozoic time (Fig. S2). 1. 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Geol Soc S Afr Trans 76:229–247. Buffelsfontein Group based on field relationships and chemical and geochronological 4. Beukes NJ, Smit CA (1987) New evidence for thrust faulting in Griqualand West, South data. SAfrJGeol98:386–392. Africa; Implications for stratigraphy and the age of red beds. S Afr J Geol 90:378–394. 17. Walraven F, Martini J (1995) Zircon Pb-evaporation age determinations for the Oak 5. Miyano T, Beukes NJ (1984) Phase relations of stilpnomelane, ferri-annite, and Tree Formation, Chuniespoort Group, Transvaal Sequence; Implications for Transvaal- riebeckite in very low-grade metamorphosed iron-formations. SAfrJGeol87:111–124. Griqualand West basin correlations. S Afr J Geol 98:58–67. 6. Schröder S (2006) Stratigraphic and geochemical framework of the Agouron drill 18. Altermann W, Nelson DR (1998) Sedimentation rates, basin analysis and regional cores, Transvaal Supergroup (Neoarchean-Paleoproterozoic, South Africa). 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