The long history of life on Earth has unfolded as a cause-and-effect relationship with the evolving amount of oxygen (O2) in the oceans and atmosphere. Oxygen deficiency …
Abstract The Ediacaran Period (~ 635–539 Ma) is marked by the emergence and diversification of complex metazoans linked to ocean redox changes, but the processes and …
Reconstructing historical atmospheric oxygen (O2) levels at finer temporal resolution is a top priority for exploring the evolution of life on Earth. This goal, however, is challenged by gaps …
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Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …
The rise of atmospheric oxygen during the Great Oxidation Event some 2.4 billion years ago was a defining transition in the evolution of global biogeochemical cycles and life on Earth …
The extent to which Paleozoic oceans differed from Neoproterozoic oceans and the causal relationship between biological evolution and changing environmental conditions are …
Although Ce anomalies are commonly used to reconstruct past seawater redox conditions, published interpretations are based on various proxy materials and analytical approaches …
Phosphorus (P) is typically considered to be the ultimate limiting nutrient for Earth's biosphere on geologic timescales. As P is monoisotopic, its sedimentary enrichment can …
The body fossil and biomarker records hint at an increase in biotic complexity between the two Cryogenian Snowball Earth episodes (ca. 661 million to≤ 650 million years ago) …