A 200-million-year delay in permanent atmospheric oxygenation

SW Poulton, A Bekker, VM Cumming, AL Zerkle… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The rise of atmospheric oxygen fundamentally changed the chemistry of surficial
environments and the nature of Earth's habitability. Early atmospheric oxygenation occurred …

Earth's surface oxygenation and the rise of eukaryotic life: Relationships to the Lomagundi positive carbon isotope excursion revisited

M Fakhraee, LG Tarhan, CT Reinhard, SA Crowe… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The availability of molecular oxygen shapes the size and structure of Earth's biosphere.
Geological and geochemical records imply that, for most of the Precambrian (the entirety of …

The great oxidation event preceded a paleoproterozoic “snowball Earth”

MR Warke, T Di Rocco, AL Zerkle… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The inability to resolve the exact temporal relationship between two pivotal events in Earth
history, the Paleoproterozoic Great Oxidation Event (GOE) and the first “snowball Earth” …

Bulk and grain-scale minor sulfur isotope data reveal complexities in the dynamics of Earth's oxygenation

G Izon, G Luo, BT Uveges, N Beukes… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The disappearance of mass-independent sulfur isotope fractionation (S-MIF) within the c. 2.3-
billion-year-old (Ga) Rooihoogte Formation has been heralded as a chemostratigraphic …

Reconciling discrepant minor sulfur isotope records of the Great Oxidation Event

BT Uveges, G Izon, S Ono, NJ Beukes… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding the timing and trajectory of atmospheric oxygenation remains fundamental to
deciphering its causes and consequences. Given its origin in oxygen-free photochemistry …

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A Bekker, B Krapež, JA Karhu, K Chamberlain - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Bekker et al.(2020) and Philippot et al.(2018) discussed implications of the
geological and geochemical records of the Turee Creek Basin in Western Australia with …

Microbial diversity and sulfur cycling in an early earth analogue: from ancient novelty to modern commonality

CR Hahn, IF Farag, CL Murphy, M Podar, MS Elshahed… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Life emerged and diversified in the absence of molecular oxygen. The prevailing anoxia and
unique sulfur chemistry in the Paleo-, Meso-, and Neoarchean and early Proterozoic eras …

Climate shapes the oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere across the Great Oxidation Event

DG Ruiz, C Goldblatt, AS Ahm - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
We use a one-dimensional atmospheric photochemical model to investigate the effect of
temperature and humidity variations on the evolution of O 2 and O 3 across the Great …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence that the GOE was a prolonged event with a peak around 1900 Ma

RR Large, RM Hazen, SM Morrison, DD Gregory… - Geosystems and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The great oxygenation event (GOE), the first of two major rises in atmospheric oxygen in
Earth history, was initially placed near the Archean-Proterozoic boundary (∼ 2500 Ma) …

[HTML][HTML] A proposed chronostratigraphic Archean–Proterozoic boundary: Insights from the Australian stratigraphic record

DMB Martin, I Mukherjee, AJ McCoy-West… - Precambrian …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mount Bruce Supergroup (MBS) in Western Australia has been central to
debates surrounding Precambrian stratigraphic subdivision and is one of the few relatively …