Phosphate rocks are a vital resource for world food supply and security. They are the
primary raw material for phosphoric acid and fertilizers used in agriculture, and are …

The Great Oxidation Event (GOE) is one of the most significant changes in seawater and
atmospheric chemistry in Earth history. This rise in oxygen occurred between ca. 2.4 and 2.3 …

Shales and mudrocks are enriched with diverse suites of major elements and trace metals
that reflect their depositional environment, provenance and diagenesis. Here we present …

Phosphorus is the central ingredient in fertilizer that allows modern agriculture to feed the
world's population. This element, also critical in a host of industrial applications, is a …

Chert deposits preserve a record of secular change in the oceanic silica cycle. The
evolutionary radiation of silica-secreting organisms resulted in a transition from abiological …

Marine ironstone is a Phanerozoic biochemical sedimentary rock that contains abundant
primary iron. Although rare, ironstone is conspicuous in the Paleozoic sedimentary record …

Lower Cretaceous deltaic sandstones of the Scotian Basin, offshore eastern Canada, are
important gas reservoirs. The influence of several factors on diagenesis has been …

Abstract Reservoir properties of Upper Triassic–Middle Jurassic sandstones, Spitsbergen,
are studied as part of a CO2 storage pilot project in Longyearbyen. The reservoir formations …

Authigenic phosphorite crusts from the shelf off Peru (9° 40′ S to 13° 30′ S) consist of a
facies with phosphatic coated grains covered by younger phosphatic laminite. The crusts are …

Phosphorus is a nutrient fundamental to life and when it precipitates in modern
environments bacteria are intimately involved in its release, concentration, and …