The oxygen isotope evolution of seawater: A critical review of a long-standing controversy and an improved geological water cycle model for the past 3.4 billion years

JBD Jaffrés, GA Shields, K Wallmann - Earth-Science Reviews, 2007 - Elsevier
Controversy over the oxygen isotope composition of seawater began in the 1950's, since
which time there has been no agreement over whether the oxygen isotope composition of …

The architecture of Recent brachiopod shells: diversity of biocrystal and biopolymer assemblages in rhynchonellide, terebratulide, thecideide and craniide shells

MS Roda, E Griesshaber, L Angiolini, C Rollion-Bard… - Marine Biology, 2022 - Springer
Biological hard tissues are a rich source of design concepts for the generation of advanced
materials. They represent the most important library of information on the evolution of life …

Carboniferous isotope stratigraphies of North America: Implications for Carboniferous paleoceanography and Mississippian glaciation

H Mii, EL Grossman, TE Yancey - Geological Society of …, 1999 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present detailed isotope stratigraphies for Carboniferous time based on brachiopod
shell calcite from the midcontinent region of North America. Evidence for shell calcite …

Geochemistry of brachiopods: oxygen and carbon isotopic records of Paleozoic oceans

J Veizer, P Fritz, B Jones - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1986 - Elsevier
Combined trace element and isotope studies of 319 brachiopods, covering the Ordovician to
Permian time span, show that δ 13 C and δ 18 O in well preserved specimens varied during …

Carbon, oxygen and strontium isotopes in Paleozoic carbonate components: an evaluation of original seawater-chemistry proxies

U Brand - Chemical Geology, 2004 - Elsevier
Brachiopods, trilobites, cements and whole rock (= matrix) material were evaluated for their
reliability as proxies of original seawater carbon, oxygen and strontium isotope chemistry. In …

Fluid-rock interaction history during stabilization of early dolomites, Upper Knox Group (Lower Ordovician), US Appalachians

IP Montanez, JF Read - Journal of Sedimentary …, 1992 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Lower Ordovician Upper Knox Group is characterized by shallowing-upward
peritidal cycles that are extensively dolomitized to form massive dolomite. Most (85%) …

The end‐Permian mass extinction: A rapid volcanic CO2 and CH4‐climatic catastrophe

U Brand, R Posenato, R Came, H Affek, L Angiolini… - Chemical …, 2012 - Elsevier
The end of the Permian was a time of crisis that culminated in the Earth's greatest mass
extinction. There is much speculation as to the cause for this catastrophe. Here we provide a …

Large Carbonate Associated Sulfate isotopic variability between brachiopods, micrite, and other sedimentary components in Late Ordovician strata

TM Present, G Paris, A Burke, WW Fischer… - Earth and Planetary …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Carbonate Associated Sulfate (CAS) is trace sulfate incorporated into carbonate
minerals during their precipitation. Its sulfur isotopic composition is often assumed to track …

Shell structure, patterns and trends of oxygen and carbon stable isotopes in modern brachiopod shells

D Parkinson, GB Curry, M Cusack, AE Fallick - Chemical Geology, 2005 - Elsevier
This study investigates δ13C and δ18O variations in the shells of modern brachiopods
representing all extant groups of calcite-precipitating brachiopods, collected live from 8 …

Diagenetic stabilization of aragonite and low-Mg calcite; I, Trace elements in rudists

IS Al-Aasm, J Veizer - Journal of Sedimentary Research, 1986 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Cretaceous rudists, with thick, multilayered, bimineralic (aragonite and low-Mg calcite)
shells, have been studied for the effects of meteoric diagenesis on their textural and …