Oxygenation, life, and the planetary system during Earth's middle history: An overview

TW Lyons, CW Diamond, NJ Planavsky, CT Reinhard… - Astrobiology, 2021 - liebertpub.com
The long history of life on Earth has unfolded as a cause-and-effect relationship with the
evolving amount of oxygen (O2) in the oceans and atmosphere. Oxygen deficiency …

Evolution of the Cryogenian cratonic basins in China, paleo-oceanic environment and hydrocarbon generation mechanism of ancient source rocks, and exploration …

G Zhu, Z Zhang, H Jiang, L Yan, W Chen, T Li… - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Deep and ancient strata are significant successor fields for future oil and gas exploration.
Recently, a unit of thick high-quality interglacial black rock series was discovered between …

The redox structure of Ediacaran and early Cambrian oceans and its controls

C Li, W Shi, M Cheng, C **, TJ Algeo - Science Bulletin, 2020 - Elsevier
The rapid diversification of early animals during the Ediacaran (635–541 Ma) and early
Cambrian (ca. 541–509 Ma) has frequently been attributed to increasing oceanic …

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 …

[KSIĄŻKA][B] Iron geochemistry: an isotopic perspective

C Johnson, B Beard, S Weyer - 2020 - Springer
Iron is a remarkable element in its relatively high abundance for its mass and its sensitivity to
(and control of) redox on a planetary scale over geologic time. Numerous volumes have …

Dispersed organic matter from pre-Devonian marine shales: A review on its composition, origin, evolution, and potential for hydrocarbon prospecting

Q Luo, F Goodarzi, N Zhong, N Qiu, X Wang… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The pre-Devonian shales are important natural archives, preserving extensive information
on paleobiology, paleoenvironment, and paleoecology, and also acting as important …

Biological diversification linked to environmental stabilization following the Sturtian Snowball glaciation

FT Bowyer, AJ Krause, Y Song, KJ Huang, Y Fu… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The body fossil and biomarker records hint at an increase in biotic complexity between the
two Cryogenian Snowball Earth episodes (ca. 661 million to≤ 650 million years ago) …

Enhanced chemical weathering triggered an expansion of euxinic seawater in the aftermath of the Sturtian glaciation

GY Wei, W Wei, D Wang, T Li, X Yang… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cryogenian Period comprised two episodes of global glaciation (Sturtian and
Marinoan glaciations) separated by a non-glacial interval, which was characterized by early …

Heterogeneous and dynamic marine shelf oxygenation and coupled early animal evolution

C Li, M Cheng, M Zhu, TW Lyons - Emerging Topics in Life …, 2018 - portlandpress.com
It is generally agreed that early diversification of animals and significant rise of atmospheric
and oceanic oxygen (O2) levels occurred in the Ediacaran (635–541 million years ago, Ma) …