Bioactive trace metals and their isotopes as paleoproductivity proxies: An assessment using GEOTRACES‐era data

TJ Horner, SH Little, TM Conway… - Global …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton productivity and export sequester climatically significant quantities of
atmospheric carbon dioxide as particulate organic carbon through a suite of processes …

A critical review of molybdenum sequestration mechanisms under euxinic conditions: Implications for the precision of molybdenum paleoredox proxies

R Phillips, J Xu - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The observed difference in molybdenum (Mo) mobility and isotopic fractionation under oxic
versus euxinic (ie, anoxic and sulfidic) aqueous conditions provides a sound operational …

[HTML][HTML] Precipitation of molybdenum from euxinic waters and the role of organic matter

GR Helz, TP Vorlicek - Chemical Geology, 2019 - Elsevier
Molybdenum preserved in organic-rich shales is a key archive employed in studying Earth's
past oxygenation and Life's evolution. In these shales, positive correlations between Mo and …

[图书][B] Iron geochemistry: an isotopic perspective

C Johnson, B Beard, S Weyer - 2020 - Springer
Iron is a remarkable element in its relatively high abundance for its mass and its sensitivity to
(and control of) redox on a planetary scale over geologic time. Numerous volumes have …

Globally limited but severe shallow-shelf euxinia during the end-Triassic extinction

AD Bond, AJ Dickson, M Ruhl, R Bos… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
One of the most severe extinctions of complex marine life in Earth's history occurred at the
end of the Triassic period (~ 201.4 million years ago). The marine extinction was initiated by …

Episodic ventilation of euxinic bottom waters triggers the formation of black shale-hosted Mn carbonate deposits

ZG Dong, ZD Peng, LJ Robbins, KO Konhauser… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
Many manganese (Mn) carbonate deposits over geologic history are often closely
associated with black shales. However, the mechanism (s) by which the Mn entered the …

Multiple negative molybdenum isotope excursions in the Doushantuo Formation (South China) fingerprint complex redox-related processes in the Ediacaran Nanhua …

CM Ostrander, SK Sahoo, B Kendall, G Jiang… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation offers one of the most complete and
extensively studied records of end-Neoproterozoic biotic and environmental change. Here …

Evidence for high organic carbon export to the early Cambrian seafloor

M Cheng, C Li, C Jin, H Wang, TJ Algeo… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Oxygenation of the early Cambrian ocean is commonly ascribed to high organic export to
the sediment due to the rise of algae and filter-feeding animals, but direct evidence of …

Characterisation of shallow groundwater dissolved organic matter in aeolian, alluvial and fractured rock aquifers

LK McDonough, H Rutlidge, DM O'Carroll… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Groundwater organic matter is processed within aquifers through transformations such as
the adsorption of dissolved organic matter (DOM) to minerals and biodegradation. The …

Recent advances in geochemical paleo-oxybarometers

B Kendall - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Knowledge of how and why oxygenic photosynthesis, eukaryotes, metazoans, and humans
evolved on Earth is important to the search for complex life outside our Solar System. Hence …