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 …

The geologic history of primary productivity

PW Crockford, YMB On, LM Ward, R Milo, I Halevy - Current Biology, 2023‏ - cell.com
The rate of primary productivity is a keystone variable in driving biogeochemical cycles
today and has been throughout Earth's past. 1 For example, it plays a critical role in …

Origin-of-life molecules in the atmosphere after big impacts on the early Earth

NF Wogan, DC Catling, KJ Zahnle… - The Planetary Science …, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The origin of life on Earth would benefit from a prebiotic atmosphere that produced nitriles,
like HCN, which enable ribonucleotide synthesis. However, geochemical evidence suggests …

Mechanisms and climatic-ecological effects of the Great Oxidation Event in the early Proterozoic

G Luo, X Zhu, S Wang, S Zhang, C Jiao - Science China Earth Sciences, 2022‏ - Springer
This paper briefly introduces the conception and research history of the Great Oxidation
Event (GOE) in the early Paleoproterozoic and summarizes the primary geological and …

Oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere induced metabolic and ecologic transformations recorded in the Lomagundi-Jatuli carbon isotopic excursion

DY Sumner - Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2024‏ - journals.asm.org
The oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere represents the quintessential transformation of a
planetary surface by microbial processes. In turn, atmospheric oxygenation transformed …

The Laramide orogeny: Current understanding of the structural style, timing, and spatial distribution of the classic foreland thick-skinned tectonic system

AB Weil, A Yonkee - 2023‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Laramide foreland belt comprises a broad region of thick-skinned, contractional
deformation characterized by an anastomosing network of basement-cored arches and …

[HTML][HTML] Temporal evolution of shallow marine diagenetic environments: Insights from carbonate concretions

SJ Loyd, P Meister, B Liu, K Nichols, FA Corsetti… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Early diagenesis of marine organic matter dramatically impacts Earth's surface chemistry by
changing the burial potential of carbon and promoting the formation of authigenic mineral …

Inverse methods for consistent quantification of seafloor anoxia using uranium isotope data from marine sediments

MA Kipp, FLH Tissot - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Uranium isotopes (δ 238 U) have quickly become one of the most widely-used redox proxies
in paleoceanographic studies. The quantitative power of the δ 238 U proxy derives from the …

Characteristics of the carbon cycle in late Mesoproterozoic: Evidence from carbon isotope composition of paired carbonate and organic matter of the Shennongjia …

D Li, G Luo, H Yang, Z She, D Papineau, C Li - Precambrian Research, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The late Mesoproterozoic Era (1300–1000 Ma) was a critical period that witnessed
the origin and early evolution of multicellular eukaryotes. Multiple studies have reported …

EONS: A new biogeochemical model of Earth's oxygen, carbon, phosphorus, and nitrogen systems from the Archean to the present

JE Horne, C Goldblatt - Geochemistry, Geophysics …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We present Earth's Oxygenation and Natural Systematics (EONS): a new, fully
coupled biogeochemical model of the atmosphere, ocean, and their interactions with the …