[HTML][HTML] Molybdenum in natural waters: A review of occurrence, distributions and controls

PL Smedley, DG Kinniburgh - Applied Geochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
Molybdenum is an essential trace element for human, animal and plant health and has
played an important part in the evolution of life on earth. Nonetheless, exposure to the …

The stable isotope geochemistry of molybdenum

B Kendall, TW Dahl, AD Anbar - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
“The Answer to the Great Question... Of Life, the Universe and Everything... Is... Forty-two,”
said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm…“I checked it very thoroughly,” said the …

Uranium and molybdenum isotope evidence for an episode of widespread ocean oxygenation during the late Ediacaran Period

B Kendall, T Komiya, TW Lyons, SM Bates… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
To improve estimates of the extent of ocean oxygenation during the late Ediacaran Period,
we measured the U and Mo isotope compositions of euxinic (anoxic and sulfidic) organic …

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 …

Paleoclimate and paleoceanography over the past 20,000 yr in the Mediterranean Sea Basins as indicated by sediment elemental proxies

F Martinez-Ruiz, M Kastner, D Gallego-Torres… - Quaternary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
Marine sediments record paleoenvironmental changes over time through variations in major
and trace element concentrations. The main objective of this paper is to review such …

[HTML][HTML] Precipitation of molybdenum from euxinic waters and the role of organic matter

GR Helz, TP Vorlicek - Chemical Geology, 2019 - Elsevier
Molybdenum preserved in organic-rich shales is a key archive employed in studying Earth's
past oxygenation and Life's evolution. In these shales, positive correlations between Mo and …

Evidence for episodic oxygenation in a weakly redox-buffered deep mid-Proterozoic ocean

NJ Planavsky, JF Slack, WF Cannon, B O'Connell… - Chemical …, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the last two decades, popular opinion about prevailing conditions in the mid-
Proterozoic deep ocean has evolved from fully oxygenated to globally euxinic (sulfidic) to a …

Seawater‐fluid composition records from molybdenum isotopes of sequentially extracted phases of seep carbonate rocks

Z Jia, Y Hu, G Bayon, J Peckmann… - Geochemistry …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Authigenic molybdenum (Moauth) in marine sediments holds great potential to archive the
Mo isotopic composition of seawater and biogeochemical processes. However, the factors …

Multiple negative molybdenum isotope excursions in the Doushantuo Formation (South China) fingerprint complex redox-related processes in the Ediacaran Nanhua …

CM Ostrander, SK Sahoo, B Kendall, G Jiang… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation offers one of the most complete and
extensively studied records of end-Neoproterozoic biotic and environmental change. Here …

A molybdenum-isotope perspective on Phanerozoic deoxygenation events

AJ Dickson - Nature Geoscience, 2017 - nature.com
The expansion and contraction of sulfidic depositional conditions in the oceans can be
tracked with the isotopic composition of molybdenum in marine sediments. However …