A late Ediacaran ice age: The key node in the Earth system evolution

R Wang, Z Yin, B Shen - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Glacial depositions are widely discovered in the late Ediacaran strata all over the world, but
the temporal and spatial distributions of the Ediacaran glaciations remain poorly …

The links between Neoproterozoic tectonics, paleoenvironment and Cambrian explosion in the Yangtze Block, China

Y Dong, B Hui, S Sun, J Sun, R Zang, B Zhang… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The correlation between Neoproterozoic tectonics, paleoenvironment and early life are
crucial for understanding the evolution of the Earth's habitability. The Yangtze Block …

Soil microbial functional profiles of P-cycling reveal drought-induced constraints on P-transformation in a hyper-arid desert ecosystem

Y Gao, A Tariq, F Zeng, J Sardans, C Graciano… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Soil water conditions are known to influence soil nutrient availability, but the specific impact
of different conditions on soil phosphorus (P) availability through the modulation of P-cycling …

Drivers of the global phosphorus cycle over geological time

M Zhao, BJW Mills, SW Poulton, B Wan… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Phosphorus is a key limiting nutrient of terrestrial and marine primary production. Thus, the
global phosphorus cycle is intimately linked with the carbon cycle and influences climate …

Marine biogeochemical nitrogen cycling through Earth's history

EE Stüeken, A Pellerin, C Thomazo… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Earth's marine nitrogen cycle has co-evolved with life and redox conditions over geological
time. In this Review, we provide an account of nitrogen cycling in the world's oceans over the …

Sulfate triple-oxygen-isotope evidence confirming oceanic oxygenation 570 million years ago

H Wang, Y Peng, C Li, X Cao, M Cheng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The largest negative inorganic carbon isotope excursion in Earth's history, namely the
Ediacaran Shuram Excursion (SE), closely followed by early animal radiation, has been …

[HTML][HTML] Early diagenetic mobilization of rare earth elements and implications for the Ce anomaly as a redox proxy

K Zhang, GA Shields - Chemical Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Rare Earth Elements (REE) archived in carbonate rocks retain a wealth of
information on paleo-seawater chemistry and local-regional redox conditions. However …

Upwelling-driven high organic production in the late Ediacaran

F Cañadas, D Papineau, TJ Algeo, C Li - Communications Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Ediacaran ocean (635-541 million years ago) is typically viewed as a stagnant,
redox-stratified ocean with low phosphorus availability. However, this contradicts the high …

A new negative carbon isotope interval caused by manganese redox cycling after the Shuram excursion

B Zhang, J Cao, K Hu, Z Liao, R Zhang… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Several negative C isotope excursions (CIEs) occurred at the end of the Neoproterozoic era
which have been generally attributed to the oxidation of organic carbon using sulfate as the …

Heterogeneous coupling of δ13Corg and δ13Ccarb during the Shuram Excursion: Implications for a large dissolved organic carbon reservoir in the Ediacaran ocean

H Gu, J Hu, M Cheng, H Wang, MS Dodd… - Global and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
The Ediacaran ocean recorded the largest negative carbonate carbon isotope (δ 13 C carb)
excursion in Earth's history, the Shuram Excursion (SE). The relatively invariant character of …