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“This is the value expected in Precambrian seawater prior to the evolution of silicasecreting organisms [Siever, 1992] and is at the upper limit of weathering fluids found on contemporary Earth, which have silica concentrations ranging from 2 to 60 ppm, depending on rock type [Garr½ls and MacKenzie, 1971, p.160].”
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“Similar to Fe(II), the Archaean ocean had significantly elevated concentrations of dissolved silica, at least as high as at saturation with cristobalite (0.67 mM at 40 o C in seawater), between 0.5 and 1.5 mM for Fe(III)-Si gels, depending on the Fe/Si ratio, or as high as 2.20 mM for amorphous silica (Siever, 1992; Maliva et al., 2005; Konhauser et al., 2007a; Zheng et al., 2016).”
From Iron formations: A global record of Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic environmental history (2017) · cites this paper as Siever, 1992
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“Abiogenic cherts are predominantly formed in the Precambrian due to high marine silica concentrations in the absence of a biological sink (Siever, 1992;Maliva et al., 2005).”
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“High concentrations of these ions within sediment pore-waters may also have been favoured by their elevated concentrations in the Precambrian seawater, owing in part, to the lack of significant biomineral sinks (e.g. Maliva et al., 1989; 2005; Siever, 1992; Porter & Knoll, 2000; Shields, 2002; Perry & Lefticariu, 2003).”
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“Indeed, in the absence of organisms with siliceous tests, Precambrian waters should have been enriched with silica, and estimations of dissolved silica concentrations vary from 60 lg g±1 (Siever, 1992) to 20±100 lg g±1 (Holland & Malinin, 1979).”
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“…levels in surface oceans to values an order of magnitude lower than those that characterized seawater before the advent of siliceous skeletons (Siever, 1992), and one might reasonably expect that the secular decline in silica availability has impacted the evolutionary trajectories of…”
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“Silica precipitation would likely have initiated both in the water column and at the sediment- water interface, as a result of a sequence of chemical reactions involving microbial degradation, pH changes, and silica diffusion gradients between the sea water and buried sediments (Siever, 1992).”
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Silicification in the Belt Supergroup (Mesoproterozoic), Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
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“Dissolved silica may have been removed from sea water through various ¯uid±rock interactions, such as sorption on to clay and zeolite minerals and particulate organic matter (Siever, 1992).”
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“In addition, prior to the evolution of silica-secreting organisms, the oceanic concentration of dissolved silica would have been significantly higher and probably close to or at saturation with respect to amorphous silica (Siever, 1992).”
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“dIScuSSIon The Late neoproterozoic–Cambrian is a critical time interval for the silica cycle, since it started being influenced by silica biomineralizing organisms, such as the Silicisponges and polycystine Radiolaria (Maliva et al., 1989; Siever, 1992; Racki & Cordey, 2000).”
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“…silica released from minor clay minerals, iron oxides, and siliceous sponge spicules is unlikely to have been sufficiently abundant for the formation of Yurtus cherts by diagenetic segregation, replacement or transformation (contra Fischer & Knoll, 2009; Murray et al., 1992; Siever, 1992).”
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The Global Marine Silica Budget: Sources and Sinks
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“…some estimates of these concentrations during the Proterozoic, before the evolution of silicifying organisms, exceed 1 mM (Conley et al., 2017; Knoll, 2008; Maliva et al., 2005; Siever, 1992), but still are below amorphous silica saturation in the absence of other cations (2 mM; Iler, 1979).”
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“760 36 stratigraphy at 3700 Ma 36 Archean seawater was likely close to saturation for silica (Siever, 1992).”
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“Ubiquitous early- mineralizing chert in BIFs is often attributed to the estimated high dissolved silica concentrations in the Archean ocean (Siever, 1992), which lacked silica- secreting organisms (Maliva et al., 2005).”
BackgroundSimulated diagenesis of the iron-silica precipitates in banded iron formations
Hinz, I. L., Rossi, L., Ma, C., & Johnson, J. E. (2023) · American Mineralogist · doi:10.2138/am-2022-8758 · Cited by 17
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“However, when biogenic silica does not exist in the system, clay minerals can control DSi concentration by sorption processes (Siever, 1992).”
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“A volume of ~ 200 mL of artificial seawa - ter (Table S1 ) with concentrations of 2.0 mM, 1.0 mM, or 0.5 mM DSi was added to the experiments to represent Ediacaran sea-water (Siever, 1992), and the pH was adjusted to 7.8 (cf. Halevy & Bachan, 2017 ) by adding 1 N HCl.”
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BackgroundMethodInfluentialThe influence of elevated SiO2(aq) on intracellular silica uptake and microbial metabolism
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“Collectively, these observations indicate that global average SiO2(aq) may have been poised as high as cristobalite or amorphous silica saturation, corresponding to concentrations between 0.67 and 2.2 mmol/L (Siever, 1992; Siever & Woodford, 1973).”
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HYDROTHERMAL BACTERIAL BIOMINERALIZATION: POTENTIAL MODERN-DAY ANALOGUES FOR BANDED IRON-FORMATIONS
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“The higher concentration of silica (1 mM) in the Precambrian oceans had been enhanced due to the increased pH (Kempe and Degens 1985; Siever 1992).”
BackgroundInfluentialSi decline and diatom evolution: Insights from physiological experiments
Petrucciani, A., Knoll, A. H., & Norici, A. (2022) · Frontiers in Marine Science · doi:10.3389/fmars.2022.924452 · Cited by 17
“…through time (Finkel and Kotrc, 2010; Kotrc and Knoll, 2015; Cermeño et al., 2015; Medlin, 2015; Knoll and Follows, 2016; Benoiston et al., 2017), affecting both the carbon and silica cycles (Siever, 1992; Ragueneau et al., 2006; Renaudie, 2016; Conley et al., 2017; Tréguer et al., 2018).”
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“Additionally there are indications that diagenetic silicification was more widespread in the Archean than now (e.g. Siever 1992).”
BackgroundPhosphate remobilization from banded iron formations during metamorphic mineral transformations
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“Indeed, when seawater [Si] approaches saturation with respect to amorphous silica (~2.2 mM; Siever, 1992), predicted PO43− concentrations increase from near 20% (Jones et al., 2015) to 100% (Konhauser et al., 2007b) of the modern, making PO43− a non-limiting factor for early marine life.”
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“Since Archean seawater was enriched in silica (Siever, 1992; Konhauser, 2007), circulating hydrothermal fluids would concentrate silica at high temperature and cause its rapid polymerization when reaching the seafloor and mixing with cooler seawater.”
BackgroundSilica-replaced oolites, bedded shelf cherts and Paleozoic changes in the silica cycle
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Opoka – a mysterious carbonate-siliceous rock: an overview of general concepts
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“Another source of silica for siliceous deposits in the marine environments are volcanic and hydrothermal processes that involve the transport of DSi, dissolution of Si-rich volcanic ash/glass shards, and submarine weathering of volcanic rocks (Maliva & Siever 1989, Siever 1992, Racki & Cordey 2000).”
BackgroundUnravelling surface and subsurface carbon sinks within the early Martian crust
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Mukhopadhyay, J., Gutzmer, J., & Beukes, N. J. (2004) · Terra Nova · doi:10.1111/j.1365-3121.2004.00571.x · Cited by 11
“However, direct inorganic precipitation of opal-CT or quartz from normal seawater at basin-wide rockforming scale has neither been substantiated nor appears to be kinetically feasible (Siever, 1992).”
BackgroundNi isotope fractionation during coprecipitation of Fe(III)(oxyhydr)oxides in Si solutions
Neubeck, A., Hemmingsson, C., Boosman, A., Rouxel, O. J., & Bohlin, M. S. (2020) · Geochemistry · doi:10.1016/j.chemer.2020.125714 · Cited by 10
“The source and sinks of Si to the oceans were therefore purely abiotic and thus, coprecipitation and adsorption may have had a much larger impact on the global Si cycle (Siever, 1992, 1957).”
BackgroundRunge, E., Duda, J., Kranendonk, M. J. V., & Reitner, J. (2022) · The Depositional Record · doi:10.1002/dep2.175 · Cited by 10
“The presence of abundant chert beds in the studied succession (Figures 2 and 5) and elsewhere throughout the Palaeoarchaean successions of the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons (Ledevin, 2019; Van Kranendonk, 2006) indicates that Palaeoarchaean submarine sedimentation occurred under high SiO2 (and bicarbonate) concentratio…”
Muller, É., Rapin, W., Caumartin, J., Jézéquel, D., Wever, A. D., Thomazo, C., Havas, R., López‐García, P., Moreira, D., Tavera, R., et al. (2022) · Sedimentology · doi:10.1111/sed.13069 · Cited by 10
“In the Precambrian, before the advent of significant biogenic silica precipitation, ocean silica concentrations were likely elevated (Siever, 1992; Conley et al., 2017), deriving from continental and seafloor weathering (Isson & Planavsky, 2018).”
BackgroundA phosphate-rich marine reservoir in the redox stratified Ediacaran ocean
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Deciphering the source of banded iron formations in the North China Craton
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Awejori, G., Dong, W., Doughty, C. A., Spycher, N. F., & Radonjic, M. (2024) · Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources · doi:10.1007/s40948-024-00835-0 · Cited by 10
“Several studies have confirmed the formation and presence of biogenic silica in sedimentary rocks (Buesseler 1998; Crawford et al. 2001; Fishman et al. 2013; Hesse 1988; Hildebrand 2004; Kröger and Sumper 2000; Siever 1992; Wise and Weaver 1975).”
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An overview of ore genesis in the Singhbhum Craton, Eastern India
Ghosh, R. (2022) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.103933 · Cited by 10
Silicon isotopes and the origin of Archaean cherts
van den Boorn, S. H. J. M. (2008) · Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) · Cited by 10
Primary microfossiliferous chert in the Aptian Barra Velha Formation
Moore, K. R., Crémière, A., Present, T. M., Barnett, A., Bergmann, K., Amthor, J. E., & Grotzinger, J. P. (2024) · Sedimentology · doi:10.1111/sed.13193 · Cited by 9
Advances in Reverse Weathering and Its Role in Clay Mineral Formation and the Carbon Dioxide Cycle
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Ediacaran metazoan fossils with siliceous skeletons from the Digermulen Peninsula of Arctic Norway
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“Indeed, previous studies have determined that oceanic silica concentrations were unusually high in the Precambrian (Siever, 1992; Maliva et al., 2005; Konhauser et al., 2007; Tarhan et al., 2016) and promoted chert precipitation in the absence of hydrothermal input (Shen et al., 2011; Ramseyer et…”
Lajoinie, M. F., Lanfranchini, M. E., Cingolani, C. A., Salvioli, M. A., de la Cal, H. G., & Etcheverry, R. O. (2021) · Journal of South American Earth Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2021.103448 · Cited by 9
Metadata
- Authors
- Siever, R.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Siever, Raymond
- Venue
- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1992-08
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 3265-3272
- ISSN
- 0016-7037 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1992933657
- Cited by
- 456
- References
- 37
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 42 · 2024: 36 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 31 · 2021: 28 · 2020: 31 · 2019: 25 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 28 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 11
- FWCI
- 0.63
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Keywords
- silica cycling, Precambrian, Neoproterozoic, dissolved silica, clay minerals, zeolites, pore water, hydrothermal input, weathering, tectonism, silica solubility
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