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 …

Recurrent photic zone euxinia limited ocean oxygenation and animal evolution during the Ediacaran

W Zheng, A Zhou, SK Sahoo, MR Nolan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Ediacaran Period (~ 635–539 Ma) is marked by the emergence and
diversification of complex metazoans linked to ocean redox changes, but the processes and …

Rapid marine oxygen variability: Driver of the Late Ordovician mass extinction

NP Kozik, SA Young, SM Newby, M Liu, D Chen… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The timing and connections between global cooling, marine redox conditions, and biotic
turnover are underconstrained for the Late Ordovician. The second most severe mass …

Progressive marine oxygenation and climatic cooling at the height of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

NP Kozik, SA Young, P Ahlberg, A Lindskog… - Global and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The oxygen content of ancient seawater has been hypothesized to be a major controlling
factor for biodiversity throughout Earth's history. The Great Ordovician Biodiversification …

Beyond anoxia: Exploring sedimentary thallium isotopes in paleo-redox reconstructions from a new core top collection

Y Wang, W Lu, KM Costa, SG Nielsen - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
The thallium isotopic composition (ε 205 Tl) of seawater has been identified as a promising
proxy for global oceanic redox conditions due to its close association with Mn oxide burial …

Nitrogen isotopic compositions of organic-rich shales (∼ 560 Ma) in the Chengkou region, South China: Implications for a stable and relatively large nitrate reservoir …

J Wu, W Jia - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2024 - Elsevier
The late Ediacaran period is a critical transitional period in Earth's history, marked by the
evolution of the Ediacara biota (∼ 574 to 538.8 Ma). The marine redox state and nutrient …

Protracted oxygenation across the Cambrian–Ordovician transition: A key initiator of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event?

NP Kozik, SA Young, A Lindskog, P Ahlberg… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fluctuations in marine oxygen concentrations have been invoked as a primary driver for
changes in biodiversity throughout Earth history. Expansions in reducing marine conditions …

Coupled vanadium and thallium isotope constraints on Mesoproterozoic ocean oxygenation around 1.38-1.39 Ga

AW Heard, Y Wang, CM Ostrander, M Auro… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The oxygenation state of the Mid-Proterozoic (1.8–0.8 Ga) ocean and atmosphere is heavily
debated and has implications for the relationship between environmental O 2 and the …

Oxygen increase and the pacing of early animal evolution

K Kaiho, A Shizuya, M Kikuchi, T Komiya… - Global and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
While it is widely accepted that early animals originated and primarily evolved during the
Neoproterozoic to Cambrian period, there remains ongoing debate over how fluctuations in …

Widespread seafloor anoxia during generation of the Ediacaran Shuram carbon isotope excursion

CM Ostrander, CJ Bjerrum, ASC Ahm, SR Stenger… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reconstructing the oxygenation history of Earth's oceans during the Ediacaran period (635
to 539 million years ago) has been challenging, and this has led to a polarizing debate …