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Was There Really an Archean Phosphate Crisis?
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During the Archean, massive amounts of iron were deposited in the form of banded iron formations. It has been suggested that sedimenting particles of ferric oxyhydroxide may have stripped dissolved phosphate from the oceans, causing a reduction in phytoplankton productivity. However, that model does not take into account the high concentration of dissolved silica that was present in seawater at that time. We show experimentally that silica effectively competes with phosphate for sorption sites on ferrihydrite particles. Furthermore, coprecipitation of silica with ferrihydrite reduces particle reactivity toward phosphate. Hence, Archean oceans probably contained considerably more phosphate than previously predicted.
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“However, the iron formation data have recently been linked to high dissolved silica concentrations rather than a P crisis; silica can outcompete P for binding sites on iron oxides (Konhauser et al., 2007; Planavsky et al., 2010).”
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“As iron-and silica-rich chemical sedimentary deposits, IF have proven useful because the trace metal content in the least metamorphosed units are almost entirely derived from seawater (see Bjerrum and Canfield, 2002;Konhauser et al., 2007;2009;2015;Robbins et al., 2013).”
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“As these partitioning scenarios are sensitive to matrix effects, such as different Si concentrations (e.g., Konhauser et al. (2007Konhauser et al. ( , 2009) ) and the presence of additional cations, (Jones et al. (2015), see also section 4.1), they cannot be directly equated.”
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“Konhauser et al. (2007) demonstrated that a high silica ocean would have attenuated phosphate adsorption to precipitating Fe oxyhydroxides, thereby keeping P in solution while still accounting for low P/Fe ratios in IF (Fig. 4) -and casting doubt on the idea of an Archean P crisis.”
From Trace elements at the intersection of marine biological and geochemical evolution (2016) · cites this paper as Konhauser et al. (2007)
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- Authors
- Konhauser, K. O., Lalonde, S. V., Amskold, L., & Holland, H. D.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Konhauser, Kurt O.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2007-03-02
- Volume
- 315
- Issue
- 5816
- Pages
- 1234-1234
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2006491332
- Cited by
- 222
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 12 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 11 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 12
- FWCI
- 6.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- 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 › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Origins and Evolution of Life
- Keywords
- banded iron formations, ferrihydrite, dissolved silica, phosphate adsorption, co-precipitation, ferric oxyhydroxide, phytoplankton productivity, Archean ocean
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