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 …

The microbial carbon pump and climate change

N Jiao, T Luo, Q Chen, Z Zhao, X **ao, J Liu… - Nature reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The ocean has been a regulator of climate change throughout the history of Earth. One key
mechanism is the mediation of the carbon reservoir by refractory dissolved organic carbon …

Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

PF Hoffman, DS Abbot, Y Ashkenazy, DI Benn… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Geological evidence indicates that grounded ice sheets reached sea level at all latitudes
during two long-lived Cryogenian (58 and≥ 5 My) glaciations. Combined uranium-lead and …

Evolution of the global phosphorus cycle

CT Reinhard, NJ Planavsky, BC Gill, K Ozaki… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The macronutrient phosphorus is thought to limit primary productivity in the oceans on
geological timescales. Although there has been a sustained effort to reconstruct the …

Rise to modern levels of ocean oxygenation coincided with the Cambrian radiation of animals

X Chen, HF Ling, D Vance, GA Shields-Zhou… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The early diversification of animals (∼ 630 Ma), and their development into both motile and
macroscopic forms (∼ 575–565 Ma), has been linked to stepwise increases in the …

Authigenic carbonate and the history of the global carbon cycle

DP Schrag, JA Higgins, FA Macdonald, DT Johnston - science, 2013 - science.org
We present a framework for interpreting the carbon isotopic composition of sedimentary
rocks, which in turn requires a fundamental reinterpretation of the carbon cycle and redox …

Continental flood basalt weathering as a trigger for Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth

GM Cox, GP Halverson, RK Stevenson… - Earth and Planetary …, 2016 - Elsevier
Atmospheric CO 2 levels and global climate are regulated on geological timescales by the
silicate weathering feedback. However, this thermostat has failed multiple times in Earth's …

[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] Geomicrobiology

HL Ehrlich, DK Newman - 2008 - taylorfrancis.com
Uncovers the Key Role Microbes Play in the Transformation of Oxidizable and Reducible
MineralsMany areas of geomicrobial processes are receiving serious attention from …

Enigmatic origin of the largest-known carbon isotope excursion in Earth's history

JP Grotzinger, DA Fike, WW Fischer - Nature Geoscience, 2011 - nature.com
Carbonate rocks from the Middle Ediacaran period in locations all over the globe record the
largest excursion in carbon isotopic compositions in Earth history. This finding suggests a …

The earliest Cambrian record of animals and ocean geochemical change

AC Maloof, SM Porter, JL Moore, FÖ Dudás… - …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Cambrian diversification of animals was long thought to have begun with an explosive
phase at the start of the Tommotian Age. Recent stratigraphic discoveries, however, suggest …