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Triple oxygen isotope evidence for limited mid-Proterozoic primary productivity

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Crockford, Peter W., Hayles, Justin A., Bao, Huiming, Planavsky, Noah J., Bekker, Andrey, Fralick, Philip W., Halverson, Galen P., Bui, Thi Hao, Peng, Yongbo, Wing, Boswell A.·2018·Nature

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The global biosphere is commonly assumed to have been less productive before the rise of complex eukaryotic ecosystems than it is today 1. However, direct evidence for this assertion is lacking. Here we present triple oxygen isotope measurements (∆17 O) from sedimentary sulfates from the Sibley basin (Ontario, Canada) dated to about 1.4 billion years ago, which provide evidence for a less productive biosphere in the middle of the Proterozoic eon. We report what are, to our knowledge, the most-negative ∆17 O values (down to -0.88‰) observed in sulfates, except for those from the terminal Cryogenian period 2. This observation demonstrates that the mid-Proterozoic atmosphere was distinct from what persisted over approximately the past 0.5 billion years, directly reflecting a unique interplay among the atmospheric partial pressures of CO 2 and O 2 and the photosynthetic O 2 flux at this time 3. Oxygenic gross primary productivity is stoichiometrically related to the photosynthetic O 2 flux to the atmosphere. Under current estimates of mid-Proterozoic atmospheric partial pressure of CO 2 (2-30 times that of pre-anthropogenic levels), our modelling indicates that gross primary productivity was between about 6% and 41% of pre-anthropogenic levels if atmospheric O 2 was between 0.1-1% or 1-10% of pre-anthropogenic levels, respectively. When compared to estimates of Archaean 4-6 and Phanerozoic primary production 7, these model solutions show that an increasingly more productive biosphere accompanied the broad secular pattern of increasing atmospheric O 2 over geologic time 8.

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Authors: Crockford, P. W., Hayles, J. A., Bao, H., Planavsky, N. J., Bekker, A., Fralick, P. W., Halverson, G. P., Bui, T. H., Peng, Y., & Wing, B. A.
Affiliations: Princeton University (US)
Louisiana State University (US)
Yale University (US)
University of California, Riverside (US)
Lakehead University (CA)
McGill University (CA)
University of Colorado Boulder (US)
Corresponding author: Crockford, Peter W.
ORCID: Crockford, Peter W.
Hayles, Justin A.
Bao, Huiming
Planavsky, Noah J.
Bekker, Andrey
Fralick, Philip W.
Halverson, Galen P.
Peng, Yongbo
Wing, Boswell A.
Venue: Nature
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2018-07
Volume: 559
Issue: 7715
Pages: 613-616
ISSN: 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0349-y
OpenAlex: W2883348468
Cited by: 196
References: 95
Citations by year: 2026: 5 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 29 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 36 · 2020: 32 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 6
FWCI: 17.49
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
escholarship.mcgill.ca
Licence: cc-by-nc-nd
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Nature (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Civil War Book Review (submittedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
eScholarship@McGill (McGill) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
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 › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
Keywords: triple oxygen isotopes, oxygen-17, gross primary productivity, atmospheric oxygen, atmospheric CO2
MeSH terms: Atmosphere, Carbon Dioxide, Ontario, Oxygen, Oxygen Isotopes, Partial Pressure, Photosynthesis, Probability, Sulfates, Sulfides, Sulfur, Sulfur Isotopes, Ecosystem, Geologic Sediments, History, Ancient

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