Sustained increases in atmospheric oxygen and marine productivity in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic eras

RG Stockey, DB Cole, UC Farrell, H Agić, TH Boag… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A geologically rapid Neoproterozoic oxygenation event is commonly linked to the
appearance of marine animal groups in the fossil record. However, there is still debate about …

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 …

Impact of global climate cooling on Ordovician marine biodiversity

DE Ontiveros, G Beaugrand, B Lefebvre… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Global cooling has been proposed as a driver of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification
Event, the largest radiation of Phanerozoic marine animal Life. Yet, mechanistic …

The oxygen bottleneck for technospheres

A Balbi, A Frank - Nature Astronomy, 2024 - nature.com
As oxygen is essential for respiration and metabolism for multicellular organisms on Earth,
its presence may be crucial for the development of a complex biosphere on other planets …

Cryogenian and Ediacaran integrative stratigraphy, biotas, and paleogeographical evolution of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas

L Sun, MMSS Khan, C Yang, Z Sun, B Pan… - Science China Earth …, 2024 - Springer
The complex evolutionary history of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas,
including the continental blocks (Indian, Lhasa, South Qiangtang, Tarim, Olongbuluk …

Upwelling-driven high organic production in the late Ediacaran

F Cañadas, D Papineau, TJ Algeo, C Li - Communications Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Ediacaran ocean (635-541 million years ago) is typically viewed as a stagnant,
redox-stratified ocean with low phosphorus availability. However, this contradicts the high …

Insights from a dynamical system approach into the history of atmospheric oxygenation

M Fakhraee, N Planavsky - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Atmospheric oxygen levels are traditionally viewed to have been relatively stable throughout
Earth's history with several-step increases. Emerging evidence, however, suggests …

Oxygen increase and the pacing of early animal evolution

K Kaiho, A Shizuya, M Kikuchi, T Komiya… - Global and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
While it is widely accepted that early animals originated and primarily evolved during the
Neoproterozoic to Cambrian period, there remains ongoing debate over how fluctuations in …

Lithium isotopic constraints on the evolution of continental clay mineral factory and marine oxygenation in the earliest Paleozoic Era

GY Wei, M Zhao, EA Sperling, RR Gaines… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The evolution of oxygen cycles on Earth's surface has been regulated by the balance
between molecular oxygen production and consumption. The Neoproterozoic–Paleozoic …

[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 …