Mountains, erosion and the carbon cycle

RG Hilton, AJ West - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2020 - nature.com
Mountain building results in high erosion rates and the interaction of rocks with the
atmosphere, water and life. Carbon transfers that result from increased erosion could control …

Evolution of Atmospheric O2 Through the Phanerozoic, Revisited

BJW Mills, AJ Krause, I Jarvis… - Annual review of earth …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
An oxygen-rich atmosphere is essential for complex animals. The early Earth had an anoxic
atmosphere, and understanding the rise and maintenance of high O2 levels is critical for …

Rapid eruption of the Columbia River flood basalt and correlation with the mid-Miocene climate optimum

J Kasbohm, B Schoene - Science advances, 2018 - science.org
Flood basalts, the largest volcanic events in Earth history, are thought to drive global
environmental change because they can emit large volumes of CO2 and SO2 over short …

Sulfur isotopes in rivers: Insights into global weathering budgets, pyrite oxidation, and the modern sulfur cycle

A Burke, TM Present, G Paris, ECM Rae… - Earth and Planetary …, 2018 - Elsevier
The biogeochemical sulfur cycle is intimately linked to the cycles of carbon, iron, and
oxygen, and plays an important role in global climate via weathering reactions and aerosols …

Toward a Cenozoic history of atmospheric CO2

Cenozoic CO2 Proxy Integration Project (CenCO2PIP) … - Science, 2023 - science.org
The geological record encodes the relationship between climate and atmospheric carbon
dioxide (CO2) over long and short timescales, as well as potential drivers of evolutionary …

Neogene cooling driven by land surface reactivity rather than increased weathering fluxes

JK Caves Rugenstein, DE Ibarra, F von Blanckenburg - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The long-term cooling, decline in the partial pressure of carbon dioxide, and the
establishment of permanent polar ice sheets during the Neogene period, have frequently …

Glacial weathering, sulfide oxidation, and global carbon cycle feedbacks

MA Torres, N Moosdorf, J Hartmann… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Connections between glaciation, chemical weathering, and the global carbon cycle could
steer the evolution of global climate over geologic time, but even the directionality of …

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 …

A record of deep-ocean dissolved O2 from the oxidation state of iron in submarine basalts

DA Stolper, CB Keller - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The oxygenation of the deep ocean in the geological past has been associated with a rise in
the partial pressure of atmospheric molecular oxygen (O2) to near-present levels and the …

The deglaciation of the Americas during the Last Glacial Termination

D Palacios, CR Stokes, FM Phillips, JJ Clague… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper reviews current understanding of deglaciation in North, Central and South
America from the Last Glacial Maximum to the beginning of the Holocene. Together with …