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

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Mid-Proterozoic expansion of passive margins and reduction in volcanic outgassing supported marine oxygenation and eukaryogenesis

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Mass-independent fractionation processes in the atmosphere

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Giving Some Tooth to Precambrian Carbonates and the Tales They Tell About Ancient Oceans

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Desequilibrio del ciclo del azufre y cambio ambiental durante el Período Ediacárico

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Diverse Biotransformation of Sulfur in Antarctic Lake SedimentsPreprint

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Differential enrichment mechanism of organic matter in freshwater and salty alkaline lake basins

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Meteorological influences on marine chemistry during the Cryogenian Sturtian glaciation

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Microbe Mineral Interaction and Environmental Pollution Management

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Tracking the spatial extent of redox variability in the mid-Proterozoic ocean

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Environmental controls on the kinetics of iron-sulfur cluster nucleation and nanoparticle formation

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Molecular insights into the dynamic relationship between respiration rate and sulfur isotope effect

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The oxygen valve on hydrogen escape since the great oxidation event

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Seawater Redox Conditions in the Late Paleoproterozoic: Insight from the North China Craton

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Precambrian subduction onset: a porphyry copper perspective

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Ancient acid rains in the Ediacaran period – An alternative story for sulfate sedimentation

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Significant Fluctuation in the Global Sulfate Reservoir and Oceanic Redox State During the Late Devonian Mass ExtinctionPreprint

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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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Ancient acid rains in Ediacaran – an alternative story for sulfate sedimentationPreprint

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Introduction to the Significant Impact of AVS on Controlling the Metal Toxicity Regarding Sulfur Cycle

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Elemental dynamics and interactions in a carbonate-buffered, sulfatic and ferruginous lakePreprint

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A protracted Mesoproterozoic carbon cycle perturbation in response to volcanism at ∼ 1.39 Ga

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An Environmental-Friendly Electrochemical Way to Co-Harvest Iodine and Sodium Alloys from Iodine-Containing Marine ResourcesPreprint

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Biogeochemistry of phytoplankton RuBisCO in the ocean

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Abiotic iron oxidation controlled the deposition of Neoproterozoic iron formations

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Copper and zinc isotopes reveal redox-driven nutrient cycles in the Mesoproterozoic ocean

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