Cited by 208Paleontology and Stratigraphy of FossilsGeology and Paleoclimatology ResearchGeological and Geochemical Analysis

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 30 of the 30 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Uncovering the Neoproterozoic carbon cycle

Open access

Johnston, D. T., Macdonald, F. A., Gill, B. C., Hoffman, P. F., Schrag, D. P.·2012·Nature

DOI 10.1038/nature10854

Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Interpretations of major climatic and biological events in Earth history are, in large part, derived from the stable carbon isotope records of carbonate rocks and sedimentary organic matter. Neoproterozoic carbonate records contain unusual and large negative isotopic anomalies within long periods (10-100 million years) characterized by δ(13)C in carbonate (δ(13)C(carb)) enriched to more than +5 per mil. Classically, δ(13)C(carb) is interpreted as a metric of the relative fraction of carbon buried as organic matter in marine sediments, which can be linked to oxygen accumulation through the stoichiometry of primary production. If a change in the isotopic composition of marine dissolved inorganic carbon is responsible for these excursions, it is expected that records of δ(13)C(carb) and δ(13)C in organic carbon (δ(13)C(org)) will covary, offset by the fractionation imparted by primary production. The documentation of several Neoproterozoic δ(13)C(carb) excursions that are decoupled from δ(13)C(org), however, indicates that other mechanisms may account for these excursions. Here we present δ(13)C data from Mongolia, northwest Canada and Namibia that capture multiple large-amplitude (over 10 per mil) negative carbon isotope anomalies, and use these data in a new quantitative mixing model to examine the behaviour of the Neoproterozoic carbon cycle. We find that carbonate and organic carbon isotope data from Mongolia and Canada are tightly coupled through multiple δ(13)C(carb) excursions, quantitatively ruling out previously suggested alternative explanations, such as diagenesis or the presence and terminal oxidation of a large marine dissolved organic carbon reservoir. Our data from Namibia, which do not record isotopic covariance, can be explained by simple mixing with a detrital flux of organic matter. We thus interpret δ(13)C(carb) anomalies as recording a primary perturbation to the surface carbon cycle. This interpretation requires the revisiting of models linking drastic isotope excursions to deep ocean oxygenation and the opening of environments capable of supporting animals.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1038/nature10854

Cites

30 of 30 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

We couldn’t retrieve this paper’s full text, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

A Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth
Hoffman, P. F., Kaufman, A. J., Halverson, G. P., & Schrag, D. P. (1998) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.281.5381.1342 · Cited by 2,693
Self-citation
The snowball Earth hypothesis: testing the limits of global change
Hoffman, P. F., & Schrag, D. P. (2002) · Terra Nova · doi:10.1046/j.1365-3121.2002.00408.x · Cited by 1,585
Self-citation
Late-Neoproterozoic Deep-Ocean Oxygenation and the Rise of Animal Life
Canfield, D. E., Poulton, S. W., & Narbonne, G. M. (2007) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1135013 · Cited by 1,000 · cited 1×
“This interpretation requires the revisiting of models linking drastic isotope excursions to deep ocean oxygenation and the opening of environments capable of supporting animal”
Background
Oxidation of the Ediacaran Ocean
Fike, D. A., Grotzinger, J. P., Pratt, L. M., & Summons, R. E. (2006) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature05345 · Cited by 989 · cited 4×
“3c-d), this simple mixing model fully describes Cyrogenian and Ediacaran records without invoking alteration 7,8 or unfamiliar ocean chemistry 6,10,11,23 .”
BackgroundMethodResultInfluential
Toward a Neoproterozoic composite carbon-isotope record
Halverson, G. P., Hoffman, P. F., Schrag, D. P., Maloof, A. C., & Rice, A. H. N. (2005) · Geological Society of America Bulletin · doi:10.1130/b25630.1 · Cited by 884
Self-citation
The abundance of 13C in marine organic matter and isotopic fractionation in the global biogeochemical cycle of carbon during the past 800 Ma
Hayes, J. M., Strauss, H., & Kaufman, A. J. (1999) · Chemical Geology · doi:10.1016/s0009-2541(99)00083-2 · Cited by 843
Secular variation in carbon isotope ratios from Upper Proterozoic successions of Svalbard and East Greenland
Knoll, A. H., Hayes, J. M., Kaufman, A. J., Swett, K., & Lambert, I. B. (1986) · Nature · doi:10.1038/321832a0 · Cited by 650
The late Precambrian greening of the Earth
Knauth, L. P., & Kennedy, M. J. (2009) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature08213 · Cited by 634
Pulsed oxidation and biological evolution in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation
McFadden, K. A., Huang, J., Chu, X., Jiang, G., Kaufman, A. J., Zhou, C., Yuan, X., & Xiao, S. (2008) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0708336105 · Cited by 617
Dynamics of the Neoproterozoic carbon cycle
Rothman, D. H., Hayes, J. M., & Summons, R. E. (2003) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0832439100 · Cited by 608

Flagged first, then by citations

Show all 30 references

Research works printed but not linked: 1

Halverson, G. P., Hoffman, P. F., Schrag, D. P. & Kaufman, A. J. A major perturbation of the carbon cycle before the Ghaub glaciation (Neoproterozoic) in Namibia: prelude to snowball Earth? Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 3, 1035, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2001gc000244 (2002) · DOI

Sorted by citations

Items 101–200 of 207

Fingerprinting local controls on the Neoproterozoic carbon cycle with the isotopic record of Cryogenian carbonates in the Panamint Range, California
Nelson, L. L., Ahm, A. C., Macdonald, F. A., Higgins, J. A., & Smith, E. F. (2021) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2021.116956 · Cited by 23
Self-citation
Paired carbonate-organic carbon and nitrogen isotope variations in Lower Mississippian strata of the southern Great Basin, western United States
Maharjan, D., Jiang, G., Peng, Y., & Henry, R. A. (2017) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.11.026 · Cited by 23
High primary productivity during the Ediacaran Period revealed by the covariation of paired C-isotopic records from South China
Gao, Y., Zhang, X., Xu, Y., Fang, C., Gong, Y., & Shen, Y. (2019) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105411 · Cited by 23
Spurious thermoluminescence characteristics of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (ca. 635–551 Ma) and its implications for marine dissolved organic carbon reservoir
Wang, H., Li, C., Hu, C., & Xie, S. (2015) · Journal of Earth Science · doi:10.1007/s12583-015-0650-3 · Cited by 22
Active biogeochemical cycles during the Marinoan global glaciation
Ma, H., Shen, B., Lang, X., Peng, Y., Huang, K., Huang, T., Fu, Y., & Tang, W. (2022) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2022.01.012 · Cited by 22
Coral reef carbonate δ13C records from the northern South China Sea: A useful proxy for seawater δ13C and the carbon cycle over the past 1.8 Ma
Xu, S., Yu, K., Fan, T., Jiang, W., Wang, R., Zhang, Y., Yue, Y., & Wang, S. (2019) · Global and Planetary Change · doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103003 · Cited by 22
Iron and phosphorus biochemical systems and the Cryogenian-Ediacaran transition, Jacadigo basin, Brazil: Implications for the Neoproterozoic oxygenation event
Hiatt, E. E., Pufahl, P. K., & DaSilva, L. G. (2019) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105533 · Cited by 23
The geologic history of marine dissolved organic carbon from iron oxides
Galili, N., Bernasconi, S. M., Nissan, A., Alcolombri, U., Aquila, G., Bella, M. D., Blattmann, T. M., Haghipour, N., Italiano, F., Jaggi, M., et al. (2025) · Nature · doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09383-3 · Cited by 21
Spatiotemporal variations of sedimentary carbon and nitrogen isotopic compositions in the Yangtze Shelf Sea across the Ordovician-Silurian boundary
Yang, X., Yan, D., Chen, D., Liu, M., She, X., Zhang, B., Zhang, L., & Zhang, J. (2021) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110257 · Cited by 20
Characteristics of the carbon cycle in late Mesoproterozoic: Evidence from carbon isotope composition of paired carbonate and organic matter of the Shennongjia Group in South China
Li, D., Luo, G., Yang, H., She, Z., Papineau, D., & Li, C. (2022) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106726 · Cited by 20
Unravelling the controls on the molybdenum isotope ratios of river waters
Horan, K., Hilton, R. G., McCoy‐West, A. J., Selby, D. S., Tipper, E. T., Hawley, S. M., & Burton, K. W. (2020) · Geochemical Perspectives Letters · doi:10.7185/geochemlet.2005 · Cited by 20
Multi‐proxy constraints on the significance of covariant δ13C values in carbonate and organic carbon during the early Mississippian
Oehlert, A. M., Swart, P. K., Eberli, G. P., Evans, S., & Frank, T. D. (2018) · Sedimentology · doi:10.1111/sed.12502 · Cited by 19
Reconstructing Redox Landscape With Coupled Nitrogen‐Sulfur Isotopes: A Case Study From Middle‐Late Triassic Chang 7 Member of the Yanchang Formation in the Ordos Basin (North China)
Wang, X., Dong, L., Li, T., Ling, K., Zhang, C., Bin, Y., Wang, Z., Jin, Z., & Fu, J. (2024) · Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · doi:10.1029/2024gc011656 · Cited by 18
A predominantly ferruginous condition in the Ediacaran deep ocean: Geochemistry of black shales in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, South China
Huang, J., Feng, L.-J., Chu, X., Sun, T., Wen, H., Qin, L., & Shen, Y.-N. (2017) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.04.019 · Cited by 18
Depositional environment of Middle Triassic organic‐rich shales in the Ordos Basin, Northwest China
Zhao, X., Wang, W., Xie, G., Pan, S., Jarzembowski, E. A., & Zheng, D. (2021) · Geological Journal · doi:10.1002/gj.4215 · Cited by 17
Assessment of the Effect of Organic Matter on Rare Earth Elements and Yttrium Using the Zhijin Early Cambrian Phosphorite as an Example
Wu, S., Yang, H.-Y., Fan, H.-F., Xia, Y., Meng, Q.-T., He, S., & Gong, X.-X. (2022) · Minerals · doi:10.3390/min12070876 · Cited by 14
Paired δ13Ccarb-δ13Corg Evolution of the Dengying Formation from Northeastern Guizhou and Implications for Stratigraphic Correlation and the Late Ediacaran Carbon Cycle
Ding, Y., Chen, D., Zhou, X., Huang, T., Guo, C., & Yeasmin, R. (2018) · Journal of Earth Science · doi:10.1007/s12583-018-0886-1 · Cited by 17
Dynamic evolution of marine productivity, redox, and biogeochemical cycling track local and global controls on Cryogenian sea-level change
Tu, C., Diamond, C., Stüeken, E. E., Cao, M., Pan, W., & Lyons, T. W. (2023) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2023.12.005 · Cited by 16
Carbonate�Corganic decoupling during the first Neoproterozoic carbon isotope excursion
Mitchell, R. N., Feng, L., Zhang, Z., & Peng, P. (2023) · The Innovation Geoscience · doi:10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2023.100046 · Cited by 17
A New Negative Carbon Isotope Interval Caused by Manganese Redox Cycling After the Shuram Excursion
Zhang, B., Cao, J., Hu, K., Liao, Z., Zhang, R., Zhang, Y., Shi, C., & Konhauser, K. O. (2024) · Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth · doi:10.1029/2023jb028307 · Cited by 17
Tonian Carbonates Record Phosphate‐Rich Shallow Seas
Roest‐Ellis, S., Richardson, J. A., Phillips, B. L., Mehra, A. K., Webb, S. M., COHEN, P. A., Strauss, J. V., & Tosca, N. J. (2023) · Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · doi:10.1029/2023gc010974 · Cited by 15
Surface ocean nitrate-limitation in the aftermath of Marinoan snowball Earth: Evidence from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in the western margin of the Yangtze Block, South China
Peng, Y., Dong, L., Ma, H., Wang, R., Lang, X., Peng, Y., Qin, S., Liu, W., & Shen, B. (2020) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105846 · Cited by 14
Phosphatized microfossils from the Miaohe Member of South China and their implications for the terminal Ediacaran biodiversity decline
Ye, Q., An, Z., Yu, Y. Y., Zhou, Z., Hu, J., Tong, J., & Xiao, S. (2023) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2023.107001 · Cited by 15
Oceanic organic carbon as a possible first-order control on the carbon cycle during the Bathonian–Callovian
Silva, R. F. L., Duarte, L. V., Wach, G. D., Morrison, N., & Campbell, T. (2019) · Global and Planetary Change · doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103058 · Cited by 14
Neoproterozoic carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Amadeus Basin, central Australia
Verdel, C., & Campbell, M. J. (2017) · Geological Society of America Bulletin · doi:10.1130/b31562.1 · Cited by 14
Influence of turbidity deposition on biogeochemical cycling in sediments and oceanic redox stratification during the waning Sturtian glaciation
Zhu, S., Lang, X., Zhao, K., & Hou, M. (2023) · Global and Planetary Change · doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104184 · Cited by 13
Large nitrogen cycle perturbations during the Early Triassic hyperthermal
Du, Y., Song, H., Stüeken, E. E., Grasby, S. E., Song, H., Tian, L., Chu, D., Corso, J. D., Li, Z., & Tong, J. (2024) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2024.08.009 · Cited by 13
Resolving the Snowball Earth conundrum: the role of marine dissolved organic carbon pool
Shen, B., Lang, X., Wang, R., Liu, Y., Zhang, S., Huang, T., Chu, X., Cui, Y., Ding, W., Du, Y., et al. (2025) · 中国科学通报：英文版 · doi:10.1016/j.scib.2025.03.056 · Cited by 13
C-Sr isotope stratigraphy of carbonate formations of the late Neoproterozoic - Cambrian Marwar Supergroup, western India
George, B. G., Kumar, S., & Ray, J. S. (2021) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106378 · Cited by 13
Carbon, oxygen, and strontium isotopic fingerprint in Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian limestones in an active margin setting: A record of local environment or global changes?
Ackerman, L., Žák, J., Žák, K., Pašava, J., Kachlík, V., Hora, J. M., Veselovský, F., & Hajná, J. (2022) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2021.106538 · Cited by 13
A shift in redox conditions near the Ediacaran/Cambrian transition and its possible influence on early animal evolution, Corumbá Group, Brazil
Caxito, F. D. A., Sperling, E. A., Fazio, G., Adôrno, R. R., Denezine, M., do Carmo, D. A., Giorgioni, M., Uhlein, G. J., & Sial, A. N. (2024) · Geoscience Frontiers · doi:10.1016/j.gsf.2024.101810 · Cited by 12
An algorithm-guided Ediacaran global composite δ13Ccarb–Bayesian age model
Hagen, C., & Creveling, J. R. (2024) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112321 · Cited by 13
Paleoenvironmental Interpretation of the Late Triassic Norian – Rhaetian Boundary Interval in the Whitehorse Trough (Stikine Terrane, Northern Canadian Cordillera)
Lei, J. Z. X., Golding, M. L., & Husson, J. M. (2022) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.111306 · Cited by 11
Origins and Alteration of Ediacaran Carbonates Recording the Shuram Excursion in Oman
Bergmann, K., Osburn, M. R., Anderson, N. T., Hayhow, C., Wilcots, J., Cantine, M. D., Fischer, W. W., & Bonifacie, M. (2025) · Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · doi:10.1029/2025gc012161 · Cited by 10
Carbon isotope chemostratigraphy of a Gondwanan Ediacaran–Cambrian transition, Soltanieh Mountains, northern Iran
Etemad‐Saeed, N., Knoll, A. H., Najafi, M., Bergmann, K., Haseley, N. R., & Karimi, S. (2021) · Gondwana Research · doi:10.1016/j.gr.2021.07.001 · Cited by 11
Carbon and Nitrogen Cycle Dynamic in Continental Late-Carboniferous to Early Permian Basins of Eastern Pangea (Northeastern Massif Central, France)
Mercuzot, M., Thomazo, C., Schnyder, J., Pellenard, P., Baudin, F., Pierson‐Wickmann, A., Sansjofre, P., Bourquin, S., Beccaletto, L., Santoni, A., et al. (2021) · Frontiers in Earth Science · doi:10.3389/feart.2021.705351 · Cited by 11
Heterogeneous sulfide reoxidation buffered oxygen release in the Ediacaran Shuram ocean
Shi, W., Mills, B. J. W., Algeo, T. J., Poulton, S. W., Newton, R. J., Dodd, M. S., Zhang, Z., Zheng, L., He, T., Hou, M., et al. (2023) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2023.07.018 · Cited by 10
Fossils or sedimentary structures? Carbonaceous spheroids from the shale of the Cryogenian Nantuo Formation in Shengnongjia area, South China
Ye, Q., Tong, J., Pang, K., Tian, L., Hu, J., & An, Z. (2020) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105759 · Cited by 10
New Facies Model and Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy for an Ediacaran Carbonate Platform From South America (Tamengo Formation—Corumbá Group, SW Brazil)
Ramos, M. E., Giorgioni, M., Walde, D. H. G., do Carmo, D. A., Fazio, G., Vieira, L. C., Denezine, M., Santos, R. V., Adôrno, R. R., & Guida, L. L. (2022) · Frontiers in Earth Science · doi:10.3389/feart.2022.749066 · Cited by 10
Record of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age From Tarim, China
Yu, H., Qiu, K., Li, M., Santosh, M., Zhao, Z., & Huang, Y. (2020) · Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · doi:10.1029/2020gc009237 · Cited by 10
Regional prediction of carbon isotopes in soil carbonates for Asian dust source tracer
Chen, B., Cui, X., & Wang, Y. (2016) · Atmospheric Environment · doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.07.029 · Cited by 9
Heterogeneous coupling of δ13Corg and δ13Ccarb during the Shuram Excursion: Implications for a large dissolved organic carbon reservoir in the Ediacaran ocean
Gu, H., Hu, J., Cheng, M., Wang, H., Dodd, M. S., Zhang, Z., Algeo, T. J., & Li, C. (2024) · Global and Planetary Change · doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104466 · Cited by 10
Scientific drilling and the evolution of the earth system: climate, biota, biogeochemistry and extreme systems
Soreghan, G. S., & Cohen, A. S. (2013) · Scientific Drilling · doi:10.5194/sd-16-63-2013 · Cited by 9
Structural Channelling of Metamorphic Fluids on Islay, Scotland: Implications for Paleoclimatic Reconstruction
Skelton, A., Lewerentz, A., Kleine, B. I., Webster, D., & Pitcairn, I. (2015) · Journal of Petrology · doi:10.1093/petrology/egv067 · Cited by 9
Questioning the role of methane in the wake of a snowball Earth: Insights from isotopically anomalous cap dolostone cements with a complex diagenetic history
Cui, H., Kitajima, K., Orland, I. J., Baele, J., Denny, A. C., Spicuzza, M. J., Fournelle, J., Goderis, S., de Winter, N. J., & Valley, J. W. (2023) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2023.11.002 · Cited by 8
Synglacial carbonate records of snowball Earth ocean composition—Evidence from the Nantuo Formation, South China
Zhu, G., Zhao, K., Ding, W., Wang, R., Ma, H., Lang, X., Li, T., Li, C., & Shen, B. (2024) · Geological Society of America Bulletin · doi:10.1130/b37227.1 · Cited by 7
Carbon isotopes of Proterozoic filamentous microfossils: SIMS analyses of ancient cyanobacteria from two disparate shallow-marine cherts
Osterhout, J. T., Schopf, J. W., Williford, K. H., McKeegan, K. D., Kudryavtsev, A. B., & Liu, M. (2021) · Geomicrobiology Journal · doi:10.1080/01490451.2021.1939813 · Cited by 7
WANCE: A possibly Volcanism-Induced Ediacaran Carbon Isotope Excursion
Lan, Z. (2022) · Journal of Earth Science · doi:10.1007/s12583-020-1106-3 · Cited by 7
Spatial variation of carbon isotopic compositions of carbonate and organic matter from the Late Ordovician sedimentary succession in the Yangtze Platform, South China: Implications for sea – Level eustacy and shoaling of marine chemocline
Yang, X., Yan, D., Chen, D., Liu, M., She, X., Zhang, J., Wei, X., & Lu, Z. (2020) · Journal of Asian Earth Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2020.104540 · Cited by 7
Primary productivity recovery and shallow-water oxygenation during the Sturtian deglaciation in South China
Wang, X., Dong, L., Ma, H., Lang, X., & Wang, R. (2024) · Global and Planetary Change · doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104546 · Cited by 6
Tectonic-sedimentary responses to major geological events, source rock formation mechanisms, and resource potential at depths greater than 10,000 m in the cratonic basins of China
Zhu, G., Hou, J., Ren, R., Jiang, H., Zhang, B., Cao, Y., Li, T., Zhao, K., Zhang, Z., & Ai, Y. (2025) · AAPG Bulletin · doi:10.1306/03182523116 · Cited by 6
New advances on the carbon isotope and rare earth elements chemostratigraphy of the late Ediacaran Tamengo Formation (Corumbá Group, Brazil)
Fernandes, H. A., Boggiani, P. C., Viana, A. Z., Caetano-Filho, S., Pereira, L. G., Freitas, B. T., Hippertt, J., Morais, L., & Trindade, R. I. F. (2023) · Journal of South American Earth Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2023.104696 · Cited by 5
The Pre-Sturtian negative δ13C excursion of the Dajiangbian formation deposited on the western margin of Cathaysia Block in South China
Feng, L., & Zhang, Q. (2016) · Journal of Earth Science · doi:10.1007/s12583-016-0665-9 · Cited by 5
Geometallurgical and Geological Evaluation of the High-Grade Polymetallic Unconformity-Related Cigar Lake Uranium Deposit
Kaczowka, A. J. (2018) · QSpace (Queen's University Library) · Cited by 5
Dual Effect of Hydrothermal Fluid on Shale Oil Reservoir in Gulong Sag, Songliao Basin: Constrained by C-O Isotope and Geochemistry
Li, J., Fu, X., Bai, Y., Zhang, H., Liu, Z., & Zhao, R. (2024) · Energies · doi:10.3390/en17164159 · Cited by 4
High-resolution chemostratigraphy reveals a large δ13C gradient in the ∼ 1.56 Ga redox-stratified ocean
Luo, J., Poulton, S. W., Chen, B., Miao, L., Chen, K., Sun, H., Wang, Z., Li, G., & Zhu, M. (2025) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2025.107785 · Cited by 4
Increased oxygenation during the peak Cambrian Explosion: Evidence from global carbon isotope records
Hu, D., Sun, L., Xu, Y., Zhang, X., Zhang, X., & Shen, Y. (2025) · Chemical Geology · doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.122890 · Cited by 5
Oceanic redox condition and the evolution of Ediacaran life: Evidence from nitrogen isotopes and biogenic silica in the Yangtze Block, South China
Wang, Z., Cao, H., Chen, F., Wei, K., Bao, C., Hou, Q., Chen, C., Huang, H., & Chen, Q. (2025) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.112903 · Cited by 4
Coevolution of life and environment during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: Clues from litho-, bio-, and chemostratigraphy of the Corumbá Group, Brazil
Fernandes, H. A., dos Santos, G. L., Pereira, L. G., Rimi, L. T., Pescarini, T., Elias, E., Bedoya-Rueda, C., Cardoso-Lucas, V., Rodrigues, L., Mazzamuto, K., et al. (2025) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2025.107887 · Cited by 4
Authigenic Carbonate Burial Within the Late Devonian Western Canada Sedimentary Basin and Its Impact on the Global Carbon Cycle
Gazdewich, S., Hauck, T. E., & Husson, J. M. (2024) · Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · doi:10.1029/2023gc011376 · Cited by 3
Climate changes in the Cryogenian nonglacial epoch: A global synthesis with new findings from the Datangpo Formation in South China
Bao, X., Zhang, S., Jiang, G., Chan, D., Hu, Y., Wu, H., Li, H., Wang, X., & Yang, T. (2023) · Global and Planetary Change · doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2023.104234 · Cited by 3
Carbon and sulfur cycling across the Silurian-Devonian boundary in the Qujing Basin, South China
Sun, L., Zhang, X., Zhu, M., Xu, Y., Zhao, W., & Shen, Y. (2024) · Chemical Geology · doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.121952 · Cited by 2
Quantitative and Nuanced Approaches Elucidate Carbon Isotope Records
Hagen, C. (2024) · Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems · doi:10.1029/2024gc011718 · Cited by 3
Isotopically anomalous organic carbon in the aftermath of the Marinoan snowball Earth
Liljestrand, F. L., Laakso, T. A., Macdonald, F. A., Schrag, D. P., & Johnston, D. T. (2020) · Geobiology · doi:10.1111/gbi.12383 · Cited by 3
Self-citation
Identification of lanostanes, A-ring methylated steranes and secosteranes in late Neoproterozoic crude oils by GC×GC-TOFMS: New insights into molecular taphonomy of steroids
Bhattacharya, S., Dutta, S., & Kumar, S. (2021) · Geobios · doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2021.04.003 · Cited by 3
Carbonate storm deposits and C, O isotopes of the Lagoa do Jacaré Formation (Ediacaran) in the Paraopeba area, Bambuí Group, Brazil
Dantas, M. V. S., Uhlein, A., Uhlein, G. J., Rodrigues, A. D. F., Mendonça, T. K., Santos, J. A. O., & Moura, S. A. (2022) · Brazilian Journal of Geology · doi:10.1590/2317-4889202120200135 · Cited by 3
Sedimentary Mn Metallogenesis and Coupling among Major Geo-Environmental Events during the Sturtian Glacial–Interglacial Transition
Liu, L., Jiang, Z., & Chu, F. (2023) · Minerals · doi:10.3390/min13060712 · Cited by 3
Reconstitutions paléoenvironnementales et paléoclimatiques en contexte tardi-orogénique : cas des bassins fini-carbonifères à permiens du nord-est du Massif central, France
Mercuzot, M. (2020) · theses.fr (ABES) · doi:10.70675/1e2fcf24z6b11z4507zb3a0z09417ee02c9b · Cited by 3
Cambrian Foreland Phosphogenesis in the Khuvsgul Basin of Mongolia
Anttila, E., Macdonald, F. A., Schoene, B., & Gaynor, S. P. (2025) · American Journal of Science · doi:10.2475/001c.125832 · Cited by 3
Self-citation
High resolution Ordovician (Floian-Sandbian) carbon isotope stratigraphy from the Jiangnan slope, South China: The first complete record of the MDICE in δ13Corg and its global significance
Luan, X., Calner, M., Gong, F., Lehnert, O., Yan, G., Zhang, Y., Zhang, Z., & Wu, R. (2025) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113227 · Cited by 2
Challenges in using platform carbonates to trace global seawater δ13C variations: A review and insights from terminal Ediacaran carbonate platforms
Ding, Y., Zhang, Y. A., Shugen, L., Zhou, G., Wen, H., Chen, D., Yan, W., Lan, C., He, Y., Deng, C., et al. (2026) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2026.105448 · Cited by 2
Snowball earth: The African legacy
Hoffman, P. F. (2023) · Journal of African Earth Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2023.104976 · Cited by 2
Self-citation
Spatiotemporal variation of dissolved oxygen in the Ediacaran surface ocean and its implication for oceanic carbon cycling
Zhang, Z., Cheng, M., Wang, H., Chen, X., Guo, W., & Li, C. (2023) · Science China Earth Sciences · doi:10.1007/s11430-022-1116-3 · Cited by 2
Mercury isotope profiles against the massive dissolved organic carbon remineralization for the largest Ediacaran carbonate-carbon isotope excursion
Xi, P., Liu, Y., Chen, J., & Shen, J. (2024) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118862 · Cited by 2
Manganese mineralization constrained by redox conditions in the Cryogenian Nanhua Basin, South China and its implications for nitrogen and carbon cycling
Wang, P., Wang, J. Z., Du, Y., Yu, W., Zhou, Q. F., Tian, L., Yuan, L., Pan, W., Wei, W., Qin, Y., et al. (2024) · Frontiers in Marine Science · doi:10.3389/fmars.2024.1469283 · Cited by 2
Stable Isotope Stratigraphy
Mani, D., Patil, D. J., & Dayal, A. M. (2015) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-419968-2.00016-9 · Cited by 2
Iron isotopes and the redox evolution of Ediacaran sediments
Moynier, F., Fike, D. A., Menard, G., Fischer, W. W., Grotzinger, J. P., & Agranier, A. (2021) · Comptes Rendus Géoscience · doi:10.5802/crgeos.44 · Cited by 2
Meteorological influences on marine chemistry during the Cryogenian Sturtian glaciation
Zhu, S., Lang, X., Zhao, K., Xing, C., & Hou, M. (2024) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112573 · Cited by 1
Individual Microfossil δ13C Shows That δ13Corg Excursions in the Neoproterozoic Chuar Group Do Not Reflect the Exogenic Carbon Cycle
Agić, H., Porter, S. M., COHEN, P. A., Thomas, J. B., & Junium, C. K. (2025) · Geobiology · doi:10.1111/gbi.70022 · Cited by 1
Carbon isotope chemostratigraphy and long-term sedimentary cyclicity of the mid-Cryogenian non-glacial interlude, Stuart Shelf, South Australia
Schmid, S., Krapf, C. B. E., Loehr, S., Crombez, V., Fabris, A. J., Bockmann, M. J., & Spampinato, G. (2025) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113178 · Cited by 1
New insights into Early Triassic carbon cycle dynamics from paired δ13Ccarb and δ13Corg records
Zhang, G., Zheng, C., Zhang, X., Sun, L., Cui, Y., Li, D., & Shen, Y. (2026) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2026.113550 · Cited by 1
Unraveling the marine biogeochemical changes during the Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth collapse
Zhu, S., Lang, X., Crockford, P. W., Zhang, B., Guan, C., Xing, C., Sun, Z., & Hou, M. (2026) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2026.119854 · Cited by 1
Stratigraphic and Geochemical Investigation of the Mesoproterozoic Atar and El Mreiti Groups, Mauritania: Insights into Carbon Cycling and Ocean Redox Stratification in a Low Oxygen World
Gilleaudeau, G. J. (2013) · Cited by 1
华南埃迪卡拉纪-寒武纪过渡期的有机碳同位素梯度和海洋分层
王, 新., 史, 晓., 汤, 冬., & Jiang, G. (2014) · SCIENTIA SINICA Terrae · doi:10.1360/zd-2014-44-6-1142
Ocean deoxygenation after the Sturtian Snowball
Zhang, K., Little, S., Dickson, A. J., & Shields, G. (2025) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-025-60700-w · Cited by 1
Temperature: a key driver of Earth’s habitability over the last billion yearsPreprint
Bergmann, K., Boekelheide, N., Clarke, J. W., Cantine, M. D., Wilcots, J., Anderson, N. T., Jost, A. B., Laub, O., Drozd, J. K., Goldberg, S. L., et al. (2022) · doi:10.1002/essoar.10511918.3 · Cited by 3
Carbon Isotope Variations Associated with a Middle Ordovician Karstic Unconformity
Williams, P. S. (2020) · Digital Scholarship - UNLV (University of Nevada Reno) · doi:10.34917/7646097
Carbon isotope variations on ancient carbonate platforms: The roles of organic carbon burial and sea level
Trigg, C. R. (2013) · The Knowledge Bank (The Ohio State University)
Macrostratigraphy of the Ediacaran System in North AmericaPreprint
Segessenman, D., & Peters, S. E. (2022) · doi:10.31223/x5z04m
Comment on egusphere-2023-23
Havas, R., Thomazo, C., Iniesto, M., et al. (2023) · doi:10.5194/egusphere-2023-23-rc1
Comment on egusphere-2023-23
Havas, R., Thomazo, C., Iniesto, M., et al. (2023) · doi:10.5194/egusphere-2023-23-rc2
Comment on egusphere-2023-23
Havas, R., Thomazo, C., Iniesto, M., et al. (2023) · doi:10.5194/egusphere-2023-23-rc3
Reply on RC3
Havas, R. (2023) · doi:10.5194/egusphere-2023-23-ac2
Reply on RC2
Havas, R. (2023) · doi:10.5194/egusphere-2023-23-ac1
Reply on RC1
Havas, R. (2023) · doi:10.5194/egusphere-2023-23-ac3
埃迪卡拉纪海洋表层溶解氧含量的时空波动及其对海洋碳循环扰动的启示
张, 子., Cheng, M., 王, 海., 陈, 欣., 郭, 伟., & 李, 超. (2023) · SCIENTIA SINICA Terrae · doi:10.1360/sste-2022-0258
Isotopic and mass constraints on crustal and sedimentary organic carbon
Derry, L. A., & Derry, L. A. (2024) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-323-99762-1.00140-6
Photosynthetic fractionation of carbon: A biological driver for the Neoproterozoic Shuram carbon isotope excursion
Furness, E. N., & Mitchell, E. G. (2025) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2025.107702 · Cited by 1
Carbon Isotope Chemostratigraphy, Detrital Zircon Geochronology, and Microfossils from the Rio Pardo Basin, Ne Brazil: Implications for the Cryogenian Interglacial DynamicsPreprint
Fernandes, H. A., Rimi, L. T., Teixeira, I. R., Passarelli, C. R., Stama, L., Cardoso-Lucas, V., Ferreira, V. P., Sial, A. N., Cezario, W. S., Basso, J. D. M. L., et al. (2025) · SSRN Electronic Journal · doi:10.2139/ssrn.5353027
Diagenetic perspectives from C–O–Sr isotopes in Early Cambrian carbonates: implications for reservoir evolution in the Buah Formation, Jabal Akhdar and Huqf regions, Oman
Ali, A., El‐Ghali, M. A. K., Shibata, T., Yoshikawa, M., Moustafa, M. S. H., Abbasi, İ. A., & Nogueira, L. B. (2025) · Arabian Journal of Geosciences · doi:10.1007/s12517-025-12331-0

Authors: Johnston, D. T., Macdonald, F. A., Gill, B. C., Hoffman, P. F., & Schrag, D. P.
Affiliations: Harvard University (US)
Corresponding author: Johnston, D. T.
ORCID: Johnston, D. T.
Macdonald, F. A.
Gill, B. C.
Hoffman, P. F.
Schrag, D. P.
Venue: Nature
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2012-02-29
Volume: 483
Issue: 7389
Pages: 320-323
ISSN: 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/nature10854
OpenAlex: W2120780573
Cited by: 208
References: 30
Citations by year: 2026: 6 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 22 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 20 · 2012: 8
FWCI: 10.30
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
nrs.harvard.edu
Licence: cc-by
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Nature (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
Keywords: carbon isotope anomalies, stable carbon isotopes, mixing models, Cryogenian, oxygen accumulation, organic carbon burial, carbonate rocks, sediment organic matter, paleoclimate, Mongolia, Namibia, Canada, paleoceanography
MeSH terms: Animals, Canada, Carbon Isotopes, Mongolia, Namibia, Oceans and Seas, Seawater, Geologic Sediments, History, Ancient, Carbon Cycle

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

Uncovering the Neoproterozoic carbon cycle

Abstract

Overview

Integrity signals

Verification

Claims the paper makes

Claims other papers make about this one

Citations

Cites

Cited by

Related

Metadata

Record

About these checks