Fe (II) redox chemistry in the environment

J Huang, A Jones, TD Waite, Y Chen, X Huang… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Iron (Fe) is the fourth most abundant element in the earth's crust and plays important roles in
both biological and chemical processes. The redox reactivity of various Fe (II) forms has …

An evolving view on biogeochemical cycling of iron

A Kappler, C Bryce, M Mansor, U Lueder… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Biogeochemical cycling of iron is crucial to many environmental processes, such as ocean
productivity, carbon storage, greenhouse gas emissions and the fate of nutrients, toxic …

Iron plaque formation and its effect on key elements cycling in constructed wetlands: Functions and outlooks

Y Fan, S Sun, S He - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Ecological restoration of wetland plants has emerged as an environmentally-friendly and
less carbon footprint method for treating secondary effluent wastewater. Root iron plaque …

Co‐evolution of early Earth environments and microbial life

TW Lyons, CJ Tino, GP Fournier… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Two records of Earth history capture the evolution of life and its co-evolving ecosystems with
interpretable fidelity: the geobiological and geochemical traces preserved in rocks and the …

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 …

Strong evidence for a weakly oxygenated ocean–atmosphere system during the Proterozoic

C Wang, MA Lechte, CT Reinhard, D Asael… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
Earth's surface has undergone a protracted oxygenation, which is commonly assumed to
have profoundly affected the biosphere. However, basic aspects of this history are still …

Archean to early Paleoproterozoic iron formations document a transition in iron oxidation mechanisms

C Wang, LJ Robbins, NJ Planavsky, NJ Beukes… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
It is generally accepted that photosynthetic marine planktonic bacteria were responsible for
the oxidation of dissolved ferrous iron (Fe (II)) and the subsequent deposition of iron …

Review on the physical chemistry of iodine transformations in the oceans

GW Luther III - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The transformation between iodate (IO 3−), the thermodynamically stable form of iodine, and
iodide (I-), the kinetically stable form of iodine, has received much attention because these …

[HTML][HTML] Why do microbes make minerals?

J Cosmidis, K Benzerara - Comptes …, 2022 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
Résumé Prokaryotes have been sha** the surface of the Earth and impacting
geochemical cycles for the past four billion years. Biomineralization, the capacity to form …

Primary productivity was limited by electron donors prior to the advent of oxygenic photosynthesis

LM Ward, B Rasmussen… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
To evaluate productivity on the early Earth before the advent of oxygenic photosynthesis, we
integrated estimates of net primary production by early anaerobic metabolisms as limited by …