Artificial intelligence for geoscience: Progress, challenges and perspectives

T Zhao, S Wang, C Ouyang, M Chen, C Liu, J Zhang… - The Innovation, 2024‏ - cell.com
This paper explores the evolution of geoscientific inquiry, tracing the progression from
traditional physics-based models to modern data-driven approaches facilitated by significant …

Oxygenation, life, and the planetary system during Earth's middle history: An overview

TW Lyons, CW Diamond, NJ Planavsky, CT Reinhard… - Astrobiology, 2021‏ - liebertpub.com
The long history of life on Earth has unfolded as a cause-and-effect relationship with the
evolving amount of oxygen (O2) in the oceans and atmosphere. Oxygen deficiency …

Environmental drivers of the first major animal extinction across the Ediacaran White Sea-Nama transition

SD Evans, C Tu, A Rizzo, RL Surprenant… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
The Ediacara Biota—the oldest communities of complex, macroscopic fossils—consists of
three temporally distinct assemblages: the Avalon (ca. 575–560 Ma), White Sea (ca. 560 …

Calibrating the temporal and spatial dynamics of the Ediacaran-Cambrian radiation of animals

FT Bowyer, AY Zhuravlev, R Wood, GA Shields… - Earth-Science …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition, which incorporates the radiation of animals,
lacks a robust global temporal and spatial framework, resulting in major uncertainty in the …

Sea level controls on Ediacaran-Cambrian animal radiations

FT Bowyer, RA Wood, M Yilales - Science Advances, 2024‏ - science.org
The drivers of Ediacaran-Cambrian metazoan radiations remain unclear, as does the fidelity
of the record. We use a global age framework [580–510 million years (Ma) ago] to estimate …

The Deep-Time Digital Earth program: data-driven discovery in geosciences

C Wang, RM Hazen, Q Cheng… - National Science …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Current barriers hindering data-driven discoveries in deep-time Earth (DE) include:
substantial volumes of DE data are not digitized; many DE databases do not adhere to FAIR …

[HTML][HTML] The trace fossil record of the Nama Group, Namibia: exploring the terminal Ediacaran roots of the Cambrian explosion

SAF Darroch, AT Cribb, LA Buatois, GJB Germs… - Earth-Science …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran–Cambrian transition marks one of the most important geobiological
revolutions in Earth History, including multiple waves of evolutionary radiation and …

The rise and early evolution of animals: where do we stand from a trace-fossil perspective?

MG Mángano, LA Buatois - Interface Focus, 2020‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The trace-fossil record provides a wealth of information to track the rise and early evolution
of animals. It comprises the activity of both hard-and soft-bodied organisms, is continuous …

Decline and fall of the Ediacarans: late‐Neoproterozoic extinctions and the rise of the modern biosphere

G Mussini, FS Dunn - Biological Reviews, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
The end‐Neoproterozoic transition marked a gradual but permanent shift between distinct
configurations of Earth's biosphere. This interval witnessed the demise of the enigmatic …

Seaweeds through time: morphological and ecological analysis of Proterozoic and early Paleozoic benthic macroalgae

N Bykova, ST LoDuca, Q Ye, V Marusin… - Precambrian …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Benthic marine macroalgae or seaweeds are key ecological players in oceans today and
have been since the Proterozoic. To date, however, morphological and evolutionary patterns …