Trace elements at the intersection of marine biological and geochemical evolution

LJ Robbins, SV Lalonde, NJ Planavsky, CA Partin… - Earth-Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Life requires a wide variety of bioessential trace elements to act as structural components
and reactive centers in metalloenzymes. These requirements differ between organisms and …

Bioactive trace metals and their isotopes as paleoproductivity proxies: An assessment using GEOTRACES‐era data

TJ Horner, SH Little, TM Conway… - Global …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton productivity and export sequester climatically significant quantities of
atmospheric carbon dioxide as particulate organic carbon through a suite of processes …

A shale-hosted Cr isotope record of low atmospheric oxygen during the Proterozoic

DB Cole, CT Reinhard, X Wang, B Gueguen… - …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The emergence and expansion of animal life on Earth represents a dramatic shift in the
structure and complexity of the biosphere. A lack of firm constraints on surface oxygen levels …

Highly fractionated chromium isotopes in Mesoproterozoic-aged shales and atmospheric oxygen

DE Canfield, S Zhang, AB Frank, X Wang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The history of atmospheric oxygen through the Mesoproterozoic Era is uncertain, but may
have played a role in the timing of major evolutionary developments among eukaryotes …

Sedimentary pyrite sulfur isotopes track the local dynamics of the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone

V Pasquier, DA Fike, I Halevy - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Sulfur cycling is ubiquitous in sedimentary environments, where it mediates organic carbon
remineralization, impacting both local and global redox budgets, and leaving an imprint in …

A new estimate of detrital redox-sensitive metal concentrations and variability in fluxes to marine sediments

DB Cole, S Zhang, NJ Planavsky - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
The enrichment and depletion of redox sensitive trace metals in marine sediments have
been used extensively as paleoredox proxies. The trace metals in shale are comprised of …

Correlated molybdenum and uranium isotope signatures in modern anoxic sediments: Implications for their use as paleo-redox proxy

A Brüske, S Weyer, MY Zhao, NJ Planavsky… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Redox-sensitive trace metals and their isotopes have emerged as important tools that are
used to reconstruct the redox-evolution of the ocean-atmosphere system. However …

Volatile loss following cooling and accretion of the Moon revealed by chromium isotopes

PA Sossi, F Moynier… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Terrestrial and lunar rocks share chemical and isotopic similarities in refractory elements,
suggestive of a common precursor. By contrast, the marked depletion of volatile elements in …

[PDF][PDF] Oxygen, climate and the chemical evolution of a 1400 million year old tropical marine setting

X Wang, S Zhang, H Wang, CJ Bjerrum… - American Journal of …, 2017 - ajsonline.org
The **amaling Formation is an exceptionally well-preserved sedimentary succession
deposited on a marine passive margin about 1400 million years ago. We used a multi-proxy …

Chromium isotope geochemistry

L Qin, X Wang - Reviews in Mineralogy and …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Chromium consists of four stable isotopes (50 Cr, 52 Cr, 53 Cr and 54 Cr) with natural
abundances of 4.35%, 83.79%, 9.50% and 2.36%, respectively (Rossman and Taylor 1998) …