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Trends in estuarine pyrite formation point to an alternative model for Paleozoic pyrite burial

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Redox-sensitive trace metal hyper-enrichment in Tremadocian Alum Shale (graptolite argillite) in northwestern Estonia, Baltic Palaeobasin

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Astronomically calibrating early Ediacaran evolution

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Climatic-oceanic destabilization facilitated the euxinic expansion in the early Cambrian oceans

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Sub-millimeter molybdenum and uranium isotopes track millennial redox events in the Cambrian ocean

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Enrichment of mercury in the Lower Cambrian sedimentary successions by submarine hydrothermal venting

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Two types of jarosite in the early Cambrian sedimentary rocks: Insights for genesis and transformation of jarosite on Mars

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Upwelling controls organic matter enrichment and organic carbon cycle in the shelf area of the Doushantuo Formation

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Molybdenum isotope fractionations between ferromanganese oxides and seawater influenced ancient sedimentary isotopic signatures

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Sedimentary Environment and Mineralization of the Black Shale Polymetallic Layer in the Early Cambrian, SW China: Constraints from in situ LA‐ICP‐MS Analysis of Pyrite

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