Deconstructing the Lomagundi-Jatuli carbon isotope excursion

MSW Hodgskiss, PW Crockford… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The early to mid-Paleoproterozoic Lomagundi-Jatuli Excursion (LJE) is ostensibly the
largest magnitude (approximately+ 5 to+ 30‰), longest duration (ca. 130–250 million years) …

Snowballs in Africa: sectioning a long-lived Neoproterozoic carbonate platform and its bathyal foreslope (NW Namibia)

PF Hoffman, GP Halverson, DP Schrag, JA Higgins… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Otavi Group is a 1.5–3.5-km-thick epicontinental marine carbonate succession of
Neoproterozoic age, exposed in an 800-km-long Ediacaran− Cambrian fold belt that rims …

The geologic history of primary productivity

PW Crockford, YMB On, LM Ward, R Milo, I Halevy - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
The rate of primary productivity is a keystone variable in driving biogeochemical cycles
today and has been throughout Earth's past. 1 For example, it plays a critical role in …

A lithium-isotope perspective on the evolution of carbon and silicon cycles

B Kalderon-Asael, JAR Katchinoff, NJ Planavsky… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The evolution of the global carbon and silicon cycles is thought to have contributed to the
long-term stability of Earth's climate,–. Many questions remain, however, regarding the …

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 …

Pristine or altered, what can early diagenesis tell us in shallow-water carbonates?

GY Wei, F Zhang - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Early marine and meteoric diagenesis is commonly proposed to alter the primary
geochemical signals of shallow-marine carbonates, hindering their use as a reliable archive …

Reconstructing the lithium isotopic composition (δ7Li) of seawater from shallow marine carbonate sediments

JG Murphy, ASC Ahm, PK Swart, JA Higgins - Geochimica et cosmochimica …, 2022 - Elsevier
Records of the lithium isotopic composition of seawater (δ 7 Li sw), preserved in the lithium
isotopic composition of shallow-marine carbonate sediments (δ 7 Li carb), provide …

Widespread clay authigenesis and highly congruent silicate weathering in the Marinoan aftermath

YS Yin, GY Wei, PAEP von Strandmann… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The termination of the Cryogenian period marks a transition from an extreme ice-to a
greenhouse climate, likely initiated by increased atmospheric CO 2, however uncertainties …

A 13 million-year record of Li isotope compositions in island carbonates: Constraints on bulk inorganic carbonate as a global seawater Li isotope archive

GY Wei, F Zhang, YS Yin, YB Lin… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Lithium isotope (δ 7 Li) variations in marine carbonate sediments and rocks have been
widely used to reconstruct global seawater Li isotope compositions and then trace the paleo …

Coupled survey of lithium isotopes and Li/Ca in biogenic and inorganic carbonates

D Chen, F Thibon, A Felbacq, L Weppe, M Metian… - Earth-Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Geochemists have long considered Li isotope composition of marine carbonates as one of
the most straightforward oceanic archives, tracing climate regulation by continental silicate …