Global marine redox evolution from the late Neoproterozoic to the early Paleozoic constrained by the integration of Mo and U isotope records

GY Wei, NJ Planavsky, T He, F Zhang, RG Stockey… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The emergence and diversification of early animals is commonly thought to have coincided
with atmosphere and ocean oxygenation across the terminal Neoproterozoic and early …

[HTML][HTML] Sedimentary Ce anomalies: Secular change and implications for paleoenvironmental evolution

K Zhang, GA Shields - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Although Ce anomalies are commonly used to reconstruct past seawater redox conditions,
published interpretations are based on various proxy materials and analytical approaches …

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 history of ocean oxygenation

CT Reinhard, NJ Planavsky - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The large-scale dynamics of ocean oxygenation have changed dramatically throughout
Earth's history, in step with major changes in the abundance of O2 in the atmosphere and …

Molybdenum isotope-based redox deviation driven by continental margin euxinia during the early Cambrian

Z Qin, D Xu, B Kendall, X Zhang, Q Ou, X Wang… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Oceanic redox changes may be a key environmental trigger for the “Cambrian explosion”.
However, a hypothesized predominantly oxygenated early Cambrian ocean, inferred from …

Links between hydrographic restriction, redox conditions, and organic matter accumulation in the Early Cambrian intrashelf basin, South China

W **ao, J Cao, Z Liao, X Wang, S Zhang - Gondwana Research, 2024 - Elsevier
There was a strong relationship between paleo-oceanic conditions and organic matter
accumulation during the critical period of the Early Cambrian. The Yangtze Platform in South …

Carbon, oxygen and strontium isotopic and elemental characteristics of the Cambrian Longwangmiao Formation in South China: Paleoenvironmental significance and …

P Zhang, Y Wang, X Zhang, Z Wei, G Wang, T Zhang… - Gondwana …, 2022 - Elsevier
The biosphere experienced episodic perturbations during the Neoproterozoic–early
Cambrian, accompanied by major fluctuations of the carbon cycle. However, compared to …

Mass extinction coincided with expanded continental margin euxinia during the Cambrian Age 4

C Chang, W Hu, KJ Huang, Z Wang… - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's biosphere witnessed the first major extinction event in the Phanerozoic during the
Cambrian Age 4, with a genera loss up to∼ 45%. The traditional view suggested that marine …

The uranium isotopic record of shales and carbonates through geologic time

X Chen, FLH Tissot, MF Jansen, A Bekker… - … et cosmochimica acta, 2021 - Elsevier
In the modern ocean, U reduction and incorporation into anoxic sediments imparts a large
isotopic fractionation of approximately+ 0.6‰ that shifts the seawater δ 238 U value (238 …

Salinity variation and hydrographic dynamics in the early Cambrian Nanhua Basin (South China)

M Cheng, Z Zhang, C **, W Wei, H Wang… - Science China Earth …, 2023 - Springer
Despite intensive study of the early Cambrian Nanhua Basin (ECNB) in South China, its
degree of connectedness to the open ocean remains uncertain, impeding analysis of …