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 …

Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion

R Wood, AG Liu, F Bowyer, PR Wilby… - Nature ecology & …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Abstract The 'Cambrian Explosion'describes the rapid increase in animal diversity and
abundance, as manifest in the fossil record, between~ 540 and 520 million years ago (Ma) …

Uncovering the Ediacaran phosphorus cycle

MS Dodd, W Shi, C Li, Z Zhang, M Cheng, H Gu… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Phosphorus is a limiting nutrient that is thought to control oceanic oxygen levels to a large
extent,–. A possible increase in marine phosphorus concentrations during the Ediacaran …

[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 evolution of Earth's biogeochemical nitrogen cycle

EE Stüeken, MA Kipp, MC Koehler, R Buick - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for all life on Earth and it acts as a major control on
biological productivity in the modern ocean. Accurate reconstructions of the evolution of life …

Continental configuration controls ocean oxygenation during the Phanerozoic

A Pohl, A Ridgwell, RG Stockey, C Thomazo, A Keane… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
The early evolutionary and much of the extinction history of marine animals is thought to be
driven by changes in dissolved oxygen concentrations ([O2]) in the ocean,–. In turn,[O2] is …

Calibrating the coevolution of Ediacaran life and environment

AD Rooney, MD Cantine, KD Bergmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - pnas.org
The rise of animals occurred during an interval of Earth history that witnessed dynamic
marine redox conditions, potentially rapid plate motions, and uniquely large perturbations to …

Oceanic oxygenation events in the anoxic Ediacaran ocean

SK Sahoo, NJ Planavsky, G Jiang, B Kendall… - …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
The ocean‐atmosphere system is typically envisioned to have gone through a unidirectional
oxygenation with significant oxygen increases in the earliest (ca. 635 Ma), middle (ca. 580 …

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 …

Extensive marine anoxia during the terminal Ediacaran Period

F Zhang, S **ao, B Kendall, SJ Romaniello, H Cui… - Science …, 2018‏ - science.org
The terminal Ediacaran Period witnessed the decline of the Ediacara biota (which may have
included many stem-group animals). To test whether oceanic anoxia might have played a …