Iron formations: A global record of Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic environmental history

KO Konhauser, NJ Planavsky, DS Hardisty… - Earth-Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Iron formations (IF) represent an iron-rich rock type that typifies many Archaean and
Proterozoic supracrustal successions and are chemical archives of Precambrian seawater …

Paleoclimate and paleoceanography over the past 20,000 yr in the Mediterranean Sea Basins as indicated by sediment elemental proxies

F Martinez-Ruiz, M Kastner, D Gallego-Torres… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Marine sediments record paleoenvironmental changes over time through variations in major
and trace element concentrations. The main objective of this paper is to review such …

Review of metal sulfide nanostructures and their applications

F Jamal, A Rafique, S Moeen, J Haider… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The rapid development of population, industry, and urbanization have generated significant
issues including energy consumption and water contamination. Advanced materials are …

Trace element content of sedimentary pyrite in black shales

DD Gregory, RR Large, JA Halpin… - Economic …, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) analyses of
1,407 sedimentary (diagenetic and syngenetic) pyrites from 45 carbonaceous shale and …

Unified prebiotically plausible synthesis of pyrimidine and purine RNA ribonucleotides

S Becker, J Feldmann, S Wiedemann, H Okamura… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Theories about the origin of life require chemical pathways that allow formation of life's key
building blocks under prebiotically plausible conditions. Complex molecules like RNA must …

Effects of fiddler crab bioturbation on the geochemical migration and bioavailability of heavy metals in coastal wetlands

F Pan, K **ao, Z Guo, H Li - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•In-situ high-resolution probe was employed in fiddler crab burrows in different
coastal habitats.•Crab burrow acted as a sink of heavy metals for overlying water, but a …

Trace elements at the intersection of marine biological and geochemical evolution

LJ Robbins, SV Lalonde, NJ Planavsky, CA Partin… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Life requires a wide variety of bioessential trace elements to act as structural components
and reactive centers in metalloenzymes. These requirements differ between organisms and …

The biogeochemistry of ferruginous lakes and past ferruginous oceans

ED Swanner, N Lambrecht, C Wittkop, C Harding… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Anoxic and iron-rich (ferruginous) conditions prevailed in the ocean under the low-oxygen
atmosphere that occurred through most of the Archean Eon. While euxinic conditions (ie …

Trace metal availability and the evolution of biogeochemistry

D Giovannelli - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Biogeochemistry is controlled by a small set of microbial-encoded proteins containing redox-
sensitive transition metals as their core catalytic centre. Understanding how the …

Ocean and atmosphere geochemical proxies derived from trace elements in marine pyrite: implications for ore genesis in sedimentary basins

RR Large, I Mukherjee, DD Gregory… - Economic …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Trace element concentrations in marine pyrite, measured by laser ablation-inductively
coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), have the potential to open a new window …