The Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (ca. 635–551Ma) in South China contains
exceptionally well-preserved fossils of multicellular eukaryotes including early animals, and …

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 …

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 …

Chesapeake Bay, the largest and most productive estuary in the US, suffers from varying
degrees of water quality issues fueled by both point and nonpoint nutrient sources …

Phosphatized and silicified microfossils–preserved through replication of organic templates
by authigenic calcium phosphate and silica, respectively–form through mechanistically …

Deposition of black shale of the Lower Cambrian Niutitang Formation (NTT) of the Yangtze
Block, South China, in association with the Ediacaran-Cambrian (EC) transition was …

The availabilities of iron and phosphorus have considerably impacted biological productivity
in past and present natural aquatic environments, and therefore have been key regulators of …

Stromatolites are abundant in shallow marine sediments deposited before the evolution of
animals, but in the modern ocean they are restricted to locations where the activity of …

The term “condensation” has been used in sedimentological research for 180 years and
ever since the last 80 years, its interpretation has become increasingly diverse and, to a …

In order to understand redox variations and organic matter accumulation on the Yangtze
carbonate platform during the Late Ediacaran–Early Cambrian, petrological and …