The behavior of trace elements in seawater, sedimentary pore water, and their incorporation into carbonate minerals: a review

D Smrzka, J Zwicker, W Bach, D Feng, T Himmler… - Facies, 2019 - Springer
Trace elements are actively cycled in seawater, are essential components for marine life,
and are transported to the seafloor where they can become enriched in marine sediments …

A Cenozoic record of deep oceanic Zn isotopic composition in ferromanganese crusts

M Zhao, N Planavsky, X Wang, Y Zhang… - American Journal of …, 2023 - ajsonline.org
Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

[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 …

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 …

Trace elements in methane-seep carbonates: Potentials, limitations, and perspectives

D Smrzka, D Feng, T Himmler, J Zwicker, Y Hu… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Marine authigenic carbonates form shallow-water microbialites, mud mounds, and
hydrocarbon-seep deposits and contain appreciable amounts of trace elements that yield …

Modeling the impacts of diagenesis on carbonate paleoredox proxies

KV Lau, DS Hardisty - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
The geochemistry of the carbonate sedimentary record is invaluable for understanding the
ancient seawater evolution of carbon and redox-sensitive elements. However, the …

Uranium isotopes in marine carbonates as a global ocean paleoredox proxy: a critical review

F Zhang, TM Lenton, Á del Rey, SJ Romaniello… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
The protracted oxygenation of the ocean-atmosphere system is one of the most fundamental
changes to the Earth system through its history. The uranium isotopic composition (238 …

Petrographic and diagenetic study of siliciclastic Jurassic sediments from the Northeastern Margin of Africa: Implication for reservoir quality

AA Kassem, WS Hussein, AE Radwan, N Anani… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2021 - Elsevier
Northeastern Egypt is one of the most important exposures in the Middle East and North
Africa to study Jurassic facies. The present study analyzes 130 thin sections from a …

Constraints on Paleoproterozoic atmospheric oxygen levels

EJ Bellefroid, AS Hood, PF Hoffman… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
The oxygenation of Earth's surface environment dramatically altered key biological and
geochemical cycles and ultimately ushered in the rise of an ecologically diverse biosphere …

On the delimitation of the carbonate burial realm

A Immenhauser - The Depositional Record, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past decades, the burial realm, the most prolonged and arguably the least well‐
understood diagenetic environment, has received significant research attention. Despite …