Proterozoic seawater sulfate scarcity and the evolution of ocean–atmosphere chemistry

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The History of Ocean Oxygenation

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Oxidized sulfur-rich arc magmas formed porphyry Cu deposits by 1.88 Ga

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What controls the duration and intensity of ocean anoxic events in the Paleozoic and the Mesozoic?

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A coupled carbon-silicon cycle model over Earth history: Reverse weathering as a possible explanation of a warm mid-Proterozoic climate

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How low can they go? Aerobic respiration by microorganisms under apparent anoxia

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The history of Earth’s sulfur cycle

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Organic sulfur was integral to the Archean sulfur cycle

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Generation and Physiology of Hydrogen Sulfide and Reactive Sulfur Species in Bacteria

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Carbon isotope evidence for large methane emissions to the Proterozoic atmosphere

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Bistability in the redox chemistry of sediments and oceans

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Anaerobic oxidation of methane by Mn oxides in sulfate-poor environments

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What Controls the Sulfur Isotope Fractionation during Dissimilatory Sulfate Reduction?

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Phylogenomic analysis of novel Diaforarchaea is consistent with sulfite but not sulfate reduction in volcanic environments on early Earth

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Phylogenomic Evidence for the Origin of Obligate Anaerobic Anammox Bacteria Around the Great Oxidation Event

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Transformation of sulfur species in lake sediments at Ardley Island and Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctic Peninsula

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Interlinked marine cycles of methane, manganese, and sulfate in the post-Marinoan Doushantuo cap dolostone

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Weathering Intensity and Presence of Vegetation Are Key Controls on Soil Phosphorus Concentrations: Implications for Past and Future Terrestrial Ecosystems

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Iron and sulfur cycling in the cGENIE.muffin Earth system model (v0.9.21)

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Biogeochemical and physical controls on methane fluxes from two ferruginous meromictic lakes

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Molybdenum isotope and trace metal signals in an iron-rich Mesoproterozoic ocean: A snapshot from the Vindhyan Basin, India

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Organic matter sulfurization and organic carbon burial in the Mesoproterozoic

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On carbon burial and net primary production through Earth's history

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Salinity reconstruction in Proterozoic depositional systems

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Ice, Fire, or Fizzle: The Climate Footprint of Earth's Supercontinental Cycles

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A revised lower estimate of ozone columns during Earth's oxygenated history.

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A revised lower estimate of ozone columns during Earth’s oxygenated history

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Dynamic redox and nutrient cycling response to climate forcing in the Mesoproterozoic ocean

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Morphology dominated rapid oxidation of framboidal pyrite

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Sulfate-limited euxinic seawater facilitated Paleozoic massively bedded barite deposition

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Iron-rich carbonate tidal deposits, Angepena Formation, South Australia: A redox-stratified Cryogenian basin

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Reconstructing Early Microbial Life

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Heterogeneous oxygenation coupled with low phosphorus bio-availability delayed eukaryotic diversification in Mesoproterozoic oceans: Evidence from the ca 1.46 Ga Hongshuizhuang Formation of North China

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Mesoproterozoic Molar Tooth Structure Related to Increased Marine Oxygenation

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Redox Variables and Mechanisms in Subduction Magmatism and Volcanism

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Authigenic minerals reflect microbial control on pore waters in a ferruginous analogue

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Estuaries house Earth’s oldest known non-marine eukaryotes

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Long-term interaction of metals and phosphate with ferrihydrite in artificial seawater and implications for past and present environments

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Archaean oxygen oases driven by pulses of enhanced phosphorus recycling in the ocean

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Seawater Chemistry and Hydrothermal Controls on the Cenozoic Osmium Cycle

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A phosphate-rich marine reservoir in the redox stratified Ediacaran ocean

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Thallium isotope cycling in a ferruginous Precambrian ocean analogue

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Isotopic evidence for oceanic barium cycling in the initial stage of the mesoproterozoic

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Late Quaternary marine transgressions inferred from the pyrite sulfur content and isotopes within core sediments from the southeast coast of China

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Late acquisition of the rTCA carbon fixation pathway by Chlorobi

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Oolitic ironstones, continental iron flux and reverse weathering in the Proterozoic Eon: Insights from the Tonian Katherine Group, Yukon

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New insights into Paleoproterozoic surficial conditions revealed by 1.85 Ga corestone-rich saprolith

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Seawater sulfate dynamics and a new tipping point in the Earth system

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Spatial and Temporal Redox Heterogeneity Controlled by a Fe(II), Anoxic Upwelling System in the Early Mesoproterozoic Ocean

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Oceanic Ba removal improved marine habitability for the oldest-known animals at ca. 600 Ma

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