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 …

Claypool continued: Extending the isotopic record of sedimentary sulfate

PW Crockford, M Kunzmann, A Bekker, J Hayles… - Chemical …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Proterozoic Eon spans Earth's middle age during which many important
transitions occurred. These transitions include the oxygenation of the atmosphere …

Samples collected from the floor of Jezero Crater with the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover

JI Simon, K Hickman‐Lewis, BA Cohen… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The first samples collected by the Mars 2020 mission represent units exposed on the Jezero
Crater floor, from the potentially oldest Séítah formation outcrops to the potentially youngest …

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) …

[HTML][HTML] Sedimentary Ce anomalies: Secular change and implications for paleoenvironmental evolution

K Zhang, GA Shields - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Although Ce anomalies are commonly used to reconstruct past seawater redox conditions,
published interpretations are based on various proxy materials and analytical approaches …

Proterozoic seawater sulfate scarcity and the evolution of ocean–atmosphere chemistry

M Fakhraee, O Hancisse, DE Canfield, SA Crowe… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Oceanic sulfate concentrations are widely thought to have reached millimolar levels during
the Proterozoic Eon, 2.5 to 0.54 billion years ago. Yet the magnitude of the increase in …

The Great Oxygenation Event as a consequence of ecological dynamics modulated by planetary change

J Olejarz, Y Iwasa, AH Knoll, MA Nowak - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Great Oxygenation Event (GOE), ca. 2.4 billion years ago, transformed life and
environments on Earth. Its causes, however, are debated. We mathematically analyze the …

A productivity collapse to end Earth's Great Oxidation

MSW Hodgskiss, PW Crockford, Y Peng… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - pnas.org
It has been hypothesized that the overall size of—or efficiency of carbon export from—the
biosphere decreased at the end of the Great Oxidation Event (GOE)(ca. 2,400 to 2,050 Ma) …

Atmosphere oxygen cycling through the Proterozoic and Phanerozoic

RR Large, I Mukherjee, D Gregory, J Steadman… - Mineralium …, 2019 - Springer
Variations in atmosphere oxygen and ocean sulfate concentrations through time are
regarded as important controls on the cycles of sediment-hosted and volcanic-hosted ore …

Oxidized sulfur-rich arc magmas formed porphyry Cu deposits by 1.88 Ga

X Meng, JM Kleinsasser, JP Richards… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Most known porphyry Cu deposits formed in the Phanerozoic and are exclusively associated
with moderately oxidized, sulfur-rich, hydrous arc-related magmas derived from partial …