Late Archean to Early Paleoproterozoic global tectonics, environmental change and the rise of atmospheric oxygen

A Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth

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Atmospheric Influence of Earth's Earliest Sulfur Cycle

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Did the Breakout of Laurentia Turn Gondwanaland Inside-Out?

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Dating the rise of atmospheric oxygen

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Archean Molecular Fossils and the Early Rise of Eukaryotes

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Volcanic gases, black smokers, and the great oxidation event

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Episodic continental growth and supercontinents: a mantle avalanche connection?

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Multiple sulfur isotopes and the evolution of the atmosphere

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Calibration of Sulfate Levels in the Archean Ocean

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The oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans

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Iron formation: the sedimentary product of a complex interplay among mantle, tectonic, oceanic, and biospheric processes

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Special Paper: Adakite-Like Rocks: Their Diverse Origins and Questionable Role in Metallogenesis

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Mineral evolution

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The Neoproterozoic oxygenation event: Environmental perturbations and biogeochemical cycling

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Iron formations: A global record of Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic environmental history

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Oceanic nickel depletion and a methanogen famine before the Great Oxidation Event

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Large-scale fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric and oceanic oxygen levels from the record of U in shales

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Increased subaerial volcanism and the rise of atmospheric oxygen 2.5 billion years ago

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The oxygen isotope evolution of seawater: A critical review of a long-standing controversy and an improved geological water cycle model for the past 3.4 billion years

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Oxygen overshoot and recovery during the early Paleoproterozoic

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Evidence and implications for a widespread magmatic shutdown for 250 My on Earth

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Reconstructing pre-Pangean supercontinents

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Bistability of atmospheric oxygen and the Great Oxidation

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Decoupling photochemical Fe(II) oxidation from shallow-water BIF deposition

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Evidence for a gradual rise of oxygen between 2.6 and 2.5Ga from Mo isotopes and Re-PGE signatures in shales

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Iron Formations: Their Origins and Implications for Ancient Seawater Chemistry

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The Role of Hydrogen Sulfide in Evolution and the Evolution of Hydrogen Sulfide in Metabolism and Signaling

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SHRIMP U–Pb age constraints on magmatism and high-grade metamorphism in the Salem Block, southern India

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Rapid emergence of subaerial landmasses and onset of a modern hydrologic cycle 2.5 billion years ago

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Evolution of Uranium Fractionation Processes through Time: Driving the Secular Variation of Uranium Deposit Types

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Global Biogeochemical Changes at Both Ends of the Proterozoic: Insights from Phosphorites

Papineau, D. (2010) · Astrobiology · doi:10.1089/ast.2009.0360 · Cited by 207

Biogeochemical modelling of the rise in atmospheric oxygen

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The Geology and Metallogeny of Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposits: Variations through Geologic Time and with Tectonic Setting

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An iron shuttle for deepwater silica in Late Archean and early Paleoproterozoic iron formation

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Atmospheric Sulfur in Archean Komatiite-Hosted Nickel Deposits

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The role of biology in planetary evolution: cyanobacterial primary production in low‐oxygen Proterozoic oceans

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Oxygen Effects in Anaerobic Digestion – A Review

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Palaeoproterozoic Supercontinents and Global Evolution

Reddy, S. M., Mazumder, R., Evans, D. A. D., & Collins, A. S. (2009) · Cited by 181

Palaeoproterozoic tectonothermal evolution and deep crustal processes in the Jiao‐Liao‐Ji Belt, North China Craton: a review

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Carbon isotope record for the onset of the Lomagundi carbon isotope excursion in the Great Lakes area, North America

Bekker, A., Karhu, J. A., & Kaufman, A. J. (2006) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2006.03.008 · Cited by 176

Molybdenum isotope evidence for mild environmental oxygenation before the Great Oxidation Event

Duan, Y., Anbar, A. D., Arnold, G. L., Lyons, T. W., Gordon, G. W., & Kendall, B. (2010) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2010.08.035 · Cited by 172

Palaeoproterozoic supercontinents and global evolution: correlations from core to atmosphere

Reddy, S. M., & Evans, D. A. D. (2009) · Geological Society London Special Publications · doi:10.1144/sp323.1 · Cited by 172

The Paleoproterozoic fossil record: Implications for the evolution of the biosphere during Earth's middle-age

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Two Neoarchean supercontinents revisited: The case for a Rae family of cratons

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Atmospheric Escape Processes and Planetary Atmospheric Evolution

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Multiple sulfur isotopes from Paleoproterozoic Huronian interglacial sediments and the rise of atmospheric oxygen

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Enriched and depleted arc basalts, with Mg-andesites and adakites: A potential paired arc–back-arc of the 2.6Ga Hutti greenstone terrane, India

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What caused the rise of atmospheric O2?

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Rise in seawater sulphate concentration associated with the Paleoproterozoic positive carbon isotope excursion: evidence from sulphate evaporites in the ∼2.2–2.1 Gyr shallow‐marine Lucknow Formation, South Africa

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The Lithosphere: An Interdisciplinary Approach

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Progress towards an improved Precambrian seawater 87Sr/86Sr curve

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Composition and weathering conditions of Paleoproterozoic upper crust of Bundelkhand craton, Central India: Records from geochemistry of clastic sediments of 1.9Ga Gwalior Group

Absar, N., Raza, M., Roy, M., Naqvi, S. M., & Roy, A. (2009) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2008.11.001 · Cited by 127

Geochemistry of the Krivoy Rog Banded Iron Formation, Ukraine, and the impact of peak episodes of increased global magmatic activity on the trace element composition of Precambrian seawater

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Cobalt and marine redox evolution

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Provenance and tectonic development of the late Archaean Gawler Craton, Australia; U–Pb zircon, geochemical and Sm–Nd isotopic implications

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Trace element and isotopic characterization of Neoarchean and Paleoproterozoic iron formations in the Black Hills (South Dakota, USA): Assessment of chemical change during 2.9–1.9 Ga deposition bracketing the 2.4–2.2 Ga first rise of atmospheric oxygen

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A Chronostratigraphic Division of the Precambrian

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Zircon U–Pb age, Hf isotopes and geochemistry of Shuichang Algoma-type banded iron-formation, North China Craton: Constraints on the ore-forming age and tectonic setting

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The Geologic History of Seawater

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Episodic crustal growth and reworking of the Yudongzi terrane, South China: Constraints from the Archean TTGs and potassic granites and Paleoproterozoic amphibolites

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Provenance of detrital zircons from the late Neoproterozoic to Ordovician sandstones of South China: implications for its continental affinity

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Geoarchaeota: a new candidate phylum in the Archaea from high-temperature acidic iron mats in Yellowstone National Park

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Four-dimensional context of Earth's supercontinents

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A giant, Late Archean lake system: The Meentheena Member (Tumbiana Formation; Fortescue Group), Western Australia

Awramik, S. M., & Buchheim, H. P. (2009) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2009.07.005 · Cited by 112

Constraining atmospheric oxygen and seawater sulfate concentrations during Paleoproterozoic glaciation: In situ sulfur three-isotope microanalysis of pyrite from the Turee Creek Group, Western Australia

Williford, K. H., Kranendonk, M. J. V., Ushikubo, T., Kozdon, R., & Valley, J. W. (2011) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2011.07.010 · Cited by 108

Filling in the juvenile magmatic gap: Evidence for uninterrupted Paleoproterozoic plate tectonics

Partin, C. A., Bekker, A., Sylvester, P., Wodicka, N., Stern, R. A., Chacko, T., & Heaman, L. M. (2013) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.11.041 · Cited by 98

Delineation of the ca. 2.7 Ga TTG gneisses in the Zanhuang Complex, North China Craton and its geological implications

Yang, C., Du, L., Ren, L., Song, H., Wan, Y., Xie, H., & Geng, Y. (2012) · Journal of Asian Earth Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2012.09.031 · Cited by 97

Modulation of oxygen production in Archaean oceans by episodes of Fe(II) toxicity

Swanner, E. D., Mloszewska, A. M., Cirpka, O. A., Schoenberg, R., Konhauser, K. O., & Kappler, A. (2015) · Nature Geoscience · doi:10.1038/ngeo2327 · Cited by 90

The Archean nickel famine revisited

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Mercury (Hg) mineral evolution: A mineralogical record of supercontinent assembly, changing ocean geochemistry, and the emerging terrestrial biosphere

Hazen, R. M., Golden, J. J., Downs, R. T., Hystad, G., Grew, E. S., Azzolini, D., & Sverjensky, D. A. (2012) · American Mineralogist · doi:10.2138/am.2012.3922 · Cited by 90

Rhenium variations in molybdenite (MoS2): Evidence for progressive subsurface oxidation

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Crustal root of the Eastern Dharwar Craton: Zircon U–Pb age and Lu–Hf isotopic evolution of the East Salem Block, southeast India

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Pyrite trace element chemistry of the Velkerri Formation, Roper Group, McArthur Basin: Evidence for atmospheric oxygenation during the Boring Billion

Mukherjee, I., & Large, R. R. (2016) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2016.05.003 · Cited by 81

Cratonic sedimentation regimes in the ca. 2450–2000Ma period: Relationship to a possible widespread magmatic slowdown on Earth?

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Climate control on banded iron formations linked to orbital eccentricity

Lantink, M. L., Davies, J. H. F. L., Mason, P. R. D., Schaltegger, U., & Hilgen, F. J. (2019) · Nature Geoscience · doi:10.1038/s41561-019-0332-8 · Cited by 79

Greenalite and its role in the genesis of early Precambrian iron formations – A review

Rasmussen, B., Muhling, J. R., & Krapež, B. (2021) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103613 · Cited by 83

Steep Rock Lake: Sedimentology and geochemistry of an Archean carbonate platform

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The Global Iron Cycle

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Australia through time: a summary of its tectonic and metallogenic evolution

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A planetary perspective on Earth evolution: Lid Tectonics before Plate Tectonics

Piper, J. D. A. (2013) · Tectonophysics · doi:10.1016/j.tecto.2012.12.042 · Cited by 74

The Joffre banded iron formation, Hamersley Group, Western Australia: Assessing the palaeoenvironment through detailed petrology and chemostratigraphy

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Palinspastic (pre-rift and -drift) fit of India and conjugate Antarctica and geological connections across the suture

Veevers, J. J. (2009) · Gondwana Research · doi:10.1016/j.gr.2009.02.007 · Cited by 71

Age constraints for Paleoproterozoic glaciation in the Lake Superior Region: detrital zircon and hydrothermal xenotime ages for the Chocolay Group, Marquette Range Supergroup

Vallini, D. A., Cannon, W. F., & Schulz, K. J. (2006) · Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences · doi:10.1139/e06-010 · Cited by 69

Geochemical characterisation of Neoproterozoic marine habitats: Evidence from trace elements and Nd isotopes in the Urucum iron and manganese formations, Brazil

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The global tectonic context of the ca. 2.27-1.96 Ga Birimian Orogen – Insights from comparative studies, with implications for supercontinent cycles

Grenholm, M. (2019) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2019.04.017 · Cited by 67

Tectonic Controls on the Endowment of Neoarchean Cratons in Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposits: Evidence from Lead and Neodymium Isotopes

Huston, D. L., Champion, D. C., & Cassidy, K. F. (2013) · Economic Geology · doi:10.2113/econgeo.109.1.11 · Cited by 67

Extraterrestrial demise of banded iron formations 1.85 billion years ago

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Did plate tectonics shutdown in the Palaeoproterozoic? A view from the Siderian geologic record

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Supercontinents: myths, mysteries, and milestones

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Re–Os depositional age for Archean carbonaceous slates from the southwestern Superior Province: Challenges and insights

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Correlation of the stratigraphic cover of the Pilbara and Kaapvaal cratons recording the lead up to Paleoproterozoic Icehouse and the GOE

Bekker, A., Krapež, B., & Karhu, J. A. (2020) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103389 · Cited by 56

Detrital zircon constraints on the tectonostratigraphy of the Paleoproterozoic Pretoria Group, South Africa

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Conditioned duality of the Earth system: Geochemical tracing of the supercontinent cycle through Earth history

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