Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event
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Fractionated iron and molybdenum isotopes and levels of redox-sensitive metals suggest marine photic zone O2 at 3.2 to 3.0 Ga ago.
“Fractionated iron and molybdenum isotopes and levels of redox-sensitive metals suggest marine photic zone O2 (96–99).”
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Petrographic, geochemical, sedimentological, and isotopic data suggest rapid and effective production, stabilization, and delivery of manganese mineral phases to sediments during deposition of the Sinqeni Formation.
“Petrographic, geochemical, sedimentological, and isotopic data all suggest rapid and effective production, stabilization, and delivery of manganese mineral phases to sediments during the deposition of the Sinqeni Formation (Ossa Ossa et al. 2016, 2018;Planavsky et al. 2014).”
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The most negative δ98Mo compositions observed in Archean sediments are consistent with the delivery of manganese-oxide phases to the sediments and thus imply appreciable dissolved O2 in surface-ocean environments.
“The most negative δ 98 Mo compositions observed in Archean sediments are consistent with the delivery of manganese-oxide phases to the sediments and thus imply appreciable dissolved O 2 in surface-ocean environments.”
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Oxygenic photosynthesis possibly originated by 3.0 Ga.
“despite the possible origin of oxygenic photosynthesis by 3.0 Ga (13)”
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InfluentialSelf-citationOxygenation of the Archean atmosphere: New paleosol constraints from eastern India
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BackgroundIsotopic evidence for oxygenated Mesoarchaean shallow oceans
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BackgroundTimescales of Oxygenation Following the Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis
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BackgroundReactive Oxygen Species: Radical Factors in the Evolution of Animal Life
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Great Oxidation and Lomagundi events linked by deep cycling and enhanced degassing of carbon
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Self-citationEarth's First Redox Revolution
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BackgroundThe role of microaerophilic Fe‐oxidizing micro‐organisms in producing banded iron formations
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Photoferrotrophy: Remains of an Ancient Photosynthesis in Modern Environments
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Self-citationFalse Negatives for Remote Life Detection on Ocean-Bearing Planets: Lessons from the Early Earth
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Self-citationPersistent global marine euxinia in the early Silurian
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Self-citationModulation of oxygen production in Archaean oceans by episodes of Fe(II) toxicity
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BackgroundEarth’s early O2 cycle suppressed by primitive continents
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Primary Productivity Was Limited by Electron Donors Prior to the Advent of Oxygenic Photosynthesis
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BackgroundTerpenes, hormones and life: isoprene rule revisited
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Self-citationSelenium isotopes support free O2 in the latest Archean
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Self-citationOxygenic photosynthesis: history, status and perspective
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Self-citationIron minerals within specific microfossil morphospecies of the 1.88 Ga Gunflint Formation
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“Several redox-sensitive tracers 2 , including Mo isotopes 7 , have been interpreted as evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis as early as 2.9 Ga, and N isotopes support denitrification by 2.7 Ga 8 .”
InfluentialPhotoferrotrophy, deposition of banded iron formations, and methane production in Archean oceans
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Self-citationEvolution of the structure and impact of Earth’s biosphere
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Self-citationThe formation of magnetite in the early Archean oceans
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“, 2005) or oxidation by O2 derived from oxygenic cyanobacteria (Planavsky et al., 2014).”
BackgroundInfluentialSelf-citationAnoxygenic photosynthesis and the delayed oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere
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BackgroundSelf-citationStable isotope fractionation of tungsten during adsorption on Fe and Mn (oxyhydr)oxides
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- Authors
- Planavsky, N. J., Asael, D., Hofmann, A., Reinhard, C. T., Lalonde, S. V., Knudsen, A., Wang, X., Ossa Ossa, F., Pecoits, E., Smith, A. J. B., Beukes, N. J., Bekker, A., Johnson, T. M., Konhauser, K. O., Lyons, T. W., & Rouxel, O. J.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Ifremer (FR)
- University of Johannesburg (ZA)
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (FR)
- Lawrence University (US)
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- University of California, Riverside (US)
- University of Alberta (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Planavsky, Noah J.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Nature Geoscience
- Published
- 2014-03-23
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 283-286
- ISSN
- 1752-0894 (ISSN-L)
- 1752-0908
- OpenAlex
- W2045036940
- Semantic Scholar
- 428b0233112c8b5ca3ca7f0f4086ffb7f2356ce3
- Cited by
- 615
- References
- 31
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- FWCI
- 35.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
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- insu.hal.science
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- Locations
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- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- 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 › Geophysics › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Keywords
- oxygenic photosynthesis, Great Oxidation Event, molybdenum isotopes, manganese oxide, early Earth atmosphere, atmospheric oxygenation, Pongola Supergroup, evolution of photosynthesis
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