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Dating the rise of atmospheric oxygen
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Several lines of geological and geochemical evidence indicate that the level of atmospheric oxygen was extremely low before 2.45 billion years (Gyr) ago, and that it had reached considerable levels by 2.22 Gyr ago. Here we present evidence that the rise of atmospheric oxygen had occurred by 2.32 Gyr ago. We found that syngenetic pyrite is present in organic-rich shales of the 2.32-Gyr-old Rooihoogte and Timeball Hill formations, South Africa. The range of the isotopic composition of sulphur in this pyrite is large and shows no evidence of mass-independent fractionation, indicating that atmospheric oxygen was present at significant levels (that is, greater than 10(-5) times that of the present atmospheric level) during the deposition of these units. The presence of rounded pebbles of sideritic iron formation at the base of the Rooihoogte Formation and an extensive and thick ironstone layer consisting of haematitic pisolites and oölites in the upper Timeball Hill Formation indicate that atmospheric oxygen rose significantly, perhaps for the first time, during the deposition of the Rooihoogte and Timeball Hill formations. These units were deposited between what are probably the second and third of the three Palaeoproterozoic glacial events.
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“The Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) at 2.45-2.22Ga (Bekker et al., 2004;Guo et al., 2009;Gumsley et al., 2017) marks the rapid appearance of free oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere (Anbar et al., 2007;Sessions et al., 2009)”
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“Although minor occurrences of low δ34S pyrite have recently been reported in late Archean strata by in situ analysis (58), samples studied here are the oldest samples that exhibit low δ34S values in bulk rock analyses (18, 59).”
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“resolving the origin of the hydrocarbon biomarkers hosted in Archean rocks would either recast or solidify the late Archean framework in which we understand one of the most profound biologically mediated transformations of the planet-the Great Oxidation Event [GOE; ∼2.4 billion years ago (Ga)] (13).”
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“In the rock record, this event is manifested by a number of changes (see Farquhar et al., 2011, 2014, for reviews), including (1) loss of easily oxidisable detrital uraninite, pyrite, and siderite from fluvial siliciclastic sediments at ca. 2.4 Ga”
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“that effectively disappeared from the sedimentary record between 2.45 and 2.32 Ga (e.g., Bekker et al., 2004;Farquhar et al., 2000;2011).”
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“The disappearance of S-MIF is perhaps the most accepted evidence for the onset of widespread and permanent oxygenation of the Earth's surface to levels above 10 -5 times present atmospheric levels (PAL) (see Pavlov and Kasting, 2002;Bekker et al., 2004;Farquhar et al., 2000;2011).”
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“Past studies of non-mass dependent and mass dependent sulfur isotope records of sedimentary pyrite have placed important constraints on the biogeochemical cycle of sulfur and the evolution of ocean chemistry during the rise in atmospheric oxygen (Cameron 1982; Farquhar et al. 2000, 2007; Mojzsis et al. 2003; Ono et al…”
BackgroundFeulner, G. (2012) · Reviews of Geophysics · doi:10.1029/2011rg000375 · Cited by 338
“…events is obviously crucial, and it now appears that the first global glaciation occurred close to 2.4 Ga [Kirschvink et al., 2000] and thus before the Great Oxidation Event which is dated closer to 2.3 Ga and thus around the time of the second of three Huronian glaciations [Bekker et al., 2004].”
BackgroundInfluentialSulfate was a trace constituent of Archean seawater
Crowe, S. A., Paris, G., Katsev, S., Jones, C., Kim, S.-T., Zerkle, A. L., Nomosatryo, S., Fowle, D. A., Adkins, J. F., Sessions, A. L., et al. (2014) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1258966 · Cited by 328
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Early photosynthetic eukaryotes inhabited low-salinity habitats
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“32 By was set as the minimum age for the cyanobacterial root (2).”
BackgroundMass spectrometry and natural variations of iron isotopes
Dauphas, N., & Rouxel, O. J. (2006) · Mass Spectrometry Reviews · doi:10.1002/mas.20078 · Cited by 320
“3 Ga (Holland, 1984; Farquhar, Bao, & Thiemens, 2000; Bekker et al., 2004) was one of the most dramatic changes in the history of the Earth and the evolution of life.”
BackgroundIsotopic evidence for Mesoarchaean anoxia and changing atmospheric sulphur chemistry
Farquhar, J. D., Peters, M., Johnston, D. T., Strauß, H., Masterson, A. L., Wiechert, U., & Kaufman, A. J. (2007) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature06202 · Cited by 319
Exoplanet Biosignatures: Understanding Oxygen as a Biosignature in the Context of Its Environment
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“…of O2 in the atmosphere, which was likely mediated by burial and removal of organic carbon from Earth’s surface environment (Kasting, 2001; Lyons et al., 2014), evidently occurred somewhat later, between 2.45 and 2.2 billion years ago (Ga; Farquhar, 2000; Bekker et al., 2004; Canfield, 2005).”
BackgroundInfluentialZAHNLE, K., CLAIRE, M., & CATLING, D. (2006) · Geobiology · doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2006.00085.x · Cited by 315
“What is striking about the isotopic signature is that (i) it exists at all; (ii) the signal is strong through much of the Archean; and (iii) the strong signal seems to disappear abruptly ca. 2.45 Ga (Farquhar et al ., 2000; Farquhar & Wing, 2003; Bekker et al ., 2004; Papineau et al ., 2005), just before a set of seve…”
BackgroundInfluentialWhen anaerobes encounter oxygen: mechanisms of oxygen toxicity, tolerance and defence
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Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr ago
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A Reappraisal of Redox Melting in the Earth’s Mantle as a Function of Tectonic Setting and Time
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“(1993) noted that a constant mantle oxidation state implies an oxygen-bearing Archaean atmosphere, which contrasts with evidence for a major increase in atmospheric oxygen levels in the early Proterozoic (Farquhar et al., 2000; Pavlov & Kasting, 2002; Bekker et al., 2004).”
BackgroundReappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks
French, K. L., Hallmann, C., Hope, J. M., Schoon, P. L., Zumberge, J. A., Hoshino, Y., Peters, C. A., George, S. C., Love, G. D., Brocks, J. J., et al. (2015) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1419563112 · Cited by 307
Organic-walled microfossils in 3.2-billion-year-old shallow-marine siliciclastic deposits
Javaux, E., Marshall, C. P., & Bekker, A. (2010) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature08793 · Cited by 307
Self-citationCatling, D. C., Glein, C. R., Zahnle, K. J., & McKay, C. P. (2005) · Astrobiology · doi:10.1089/ast.2005.5.415 · Cited by 307
“, 1998) and large oscillations of sedimentary carbon isotopes that may follow increases in O2 (Knoll, 1986; Kaufman, 1997; Melezhik et al., 1999; Lindsay and Brasier, 2002; Bekker et al., 2004).”
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“…changes, including low latitude ‘Snowball Earth’ glaciations at 2.3–2.4 Ga (Kirschvink et al., 2000), rapid oxygenation of the atmosphere by 2.32 Ga (Bekker et al., 2004), attenuation of mass-independent fractionation of sulfur isotopes (Farquhar et al., 2000), the Lomagundi–Jatuli carbon…”
BackgroundInfluentialThe origin of multicellularity in cyanobacteria
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“22 billion years ago and provided the basis for the evolution of aerobic respiration [1-7].”
BackgroundInfluentialThe zircon archive of continent formation through time
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“Interestingly, the timeframe of increased d(18)O in zircon also correlates with the Great Oxygenation Event (Bekker et al. 2004); thus, the role of this increase in atmospheric oxygen v.”
BackgroundBistability of atmospheric oxygen and the Great Oxidation
Goldblatt, C., Lenton, T. M., & Watson, A. J. (2006) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature05169 · Cited by 297
On the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and Cyanobacteria
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“Most major groups of Cyanobacterial 225 diversity, including the lineage leading to chloroplasts, appeared after the GOE.”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialReconstruction of secular variation in seawater sulfate concentrations
Algeo, T. J., Luo, G. M., Song, H. Y., Lyons, T. W., & Canfield, D. E. (2015) · Biogeosciences · doi:10.5194/bg-12-2131-2015 · Cited by 293
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“Although the published sulfur MIF record for this age range (Bekker et al., 2004) does not support this, it still shows many gaps and therefore does not exclude it.”
BackgroundInfluentialSelf-citationA Late Archean Sulfidic Sea Stimulated by Early Oxidative Weathering of the Continents
Reinhard, C. T., Raiswell, R., Scott, C., Anbar, A. D., & Lyons, T. W. (2009) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1176711 · Cited by 287
The Early Origins of Terrestrial C 4 Photosynthesis
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Pervasive oxygenation along late Archaean ocean margins
Kendall, B., Reinhard, C. T., Lyons, T. W., Kaufman, A. J., Poulton, S. W., & Anbar, A. D. (2010) · Nature Geoscience · doi:10.1038/ngeo942 · Cited by 286
“, we conclude that substantial O 2 accumulation occurred along this productive ocean margin more than 100 Myr before the first major increase in atmospheric O 2 (Great Oxidation Event (GOE); refs&nbs”
BackgroundReconstructing Earth's surface oxidation across the Archean-Proterozoic transition
Guo, Q., Strauss, H., Kaufman, A. J., Schröder, S., Gutzmer, J., Wing, B., Baker, M. A., Bekker, A., Jin, Q., Kim, S.-T., et al. (2009) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g25423a.1 · Cited by 284
“…highly positive δ34S values of the upper Duitschland Formation samples are consistent with suggestions that [SO 4 ] rose with atmospheric pO 2 (cf. Bekker et al., 2004; Papineau et al., 2007), but also that progressive bacterial sulfate reduction, imparting a 34S depletion on the product sulfi…”
InfluentialSelf-citationIron Formations: Their Origins and Implications for Ancient Seawater Chemistry
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BackgroundInfluentialSelf-citationPhotosynthesis in the Archean Era
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“Several lines of geological and geochemical evidence indicate that the level of atmospheric oxygen was very low before 2.45 Ga ago, and that it had reached a much higher level by 2.22 Ga ago (Kasting 2001; Bekker et al. 2004).”
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“32 Ga [1] and after 0.”
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“South African rocks that record the S-isotopic shift lie above volcanic beds dated by SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geochronology at 2480 ± 6 Ma and below pyritiferous shales dated by Re-Osmethods at 2316±7Ma (28).”
BackgroundSpecial Paper 379: Sulfur Biogeochemistry - Past and Present
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bekker, A., Holland, H. D., Wang, P.-L., Rumble, D., Stein, H. J., Hannah, J. L., Coetzee, L. L., & Beukes, N. J.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Carnegie Institution for Science (US)
- Colorado State University (US)
- University of Johannesburg (ZA)
- Corresponding author
- Bekker, A.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2004-01
- Volume
- 427
- Issue
- 6970
- Pages
- 117-120
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2090027771
- Cited by
- 1,435
- References
- 43
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- FWCI
- 53.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Keywords
- Great Oxidation, atmospheric oxygen rise, sulfur isotopes, mass-independent fractionation, oolites, Neoproterozoic, Precambrian geochemistry
- MeSH terms
- Atmosphere, Carbonates, Cold Climate, Geography, Ice, Iron, Isotopes, Oxygen, South Africa, Sulfides, Sulfur, Time Factors, Geologic Sediments
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