The biogeochemistry of ferruginous lakes and past ferruginous oceans

ED Swanner, N Lambrecht, C Wittkop, C Harding… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Anoxic and iron-rich (ferruginous) conditions prevailed in the ocean under the low-oxygen
atmosphere that occurred through most of the Archean Eon. While euxinic conditions (ie …

Identifying oxygen minimum zone-type biogeochemical cycling in Earth history using inorganic geochemical proxies

F Scholz - Earth-Science Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
Because of anthropogenic global warming, the world ocean is currently losing oxygen. This
trend called ocean deoxygenation is particularly pronounced in low-latitude upwelling …

Multiple episodes of extensive marine anoxia linked to global warming and continental weathering following the latest Permian mass extinction

F Zhang, SJ Romaniello, TJ Algeo, KV Lau… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Explaining the~ 5-million-year delay in marine biotic recovery following the latest Permian
mass extinction, the largest biotic crisis of the Phanerozoic, is a fundamental challenge for …

Oxygenation of the Mesoproterozoic ocean and the evolution of complex eukaryotes

K Zhang, X Zhu, RA Wood, Y Shi, Z Gao… - Nature Geoscience, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Mesoproterozoic era (1,600–1,000 million years ago (Ma)) has long been
considered a period of relative environmental stasis, with persistently low levels of …

[HTML][HTML] The onset of widespread marine red beds and the evolution of ferruginous oceans

H Song, G Jiang, SW Poulton, PB Wignall… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Banded iron formations were a prevalent feature of marine sedimentation~ 3.8–1.8 billion
years ago and they provide key evidence for ferruginous oceans. The disappearance of …

Cycles of~ 32.5 My and~ 26.2 My in correlated episodes of continental flood basalts (CFBs), hyper-thermal climate pulses, anoxic oceans, and mass extinctions over …

MR Rampino, K Caldeira, S Rodriguez - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Potential temporal and causal connections among various geologic events have long been
discussed in the geological literature. More recently, signs of common periodicities in these …

Two-stage marine anoxia and biotic response during the Permian–Triassic transition in Kashmir, northern India: pyrite framboid evidence

Y Huang, ZQ Chen, TJ Algeo, L Zhao, A Baud… - Global and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
Although expanded ocean anoxia has long been believed to be a direct killing mechanism
causing mortality of organisms during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, little has been …

The Smithian/Spathian boundary (late Early Triassic): A review of ammonoid, conodont, and carbon-isotopic criteria

L Zhang, MJ Orchard, A Brayard, TJ Algeo, L Zhao… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The transition from the Smithian substage to the Spathian substage of the Olenekian stage
of the late Early Triassic was a critical time marked by a series of biological and …

Innovation not recovery: dynamic redox promotes metazoan radiations

R Wood, DH Erwin - Biological Reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental fluctuations in redox may reinforce rather than hinder evolutionary transitions,
such that variability in near‐surface oceanic oxygenation can promote morphological …

Establishing the link between Permian volcanism and biodiversity changes: Insights from geochemical proxies

J Chen, Y Xu - Gondwana Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Current understanding of biodiversity changes in the Permian is presented, especially the
consensus and disagreement on the tempo, duration, and pattern of end-Guadalupian and …