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A Whiff of Oxygen Before the Great Oxidation Event?
Abstract
High-resolution chemostratigraphy reveals an episode of enrichment of the redox-sensitive transition metals molybdenum and rhenium in the late Archean Mount McRae Shale in Western Australia. Correlations with organic carbon indicate that these metals were derived from contemporaneous seawater. Rhenium/osmium geochronology demonstrates that the enrichment is a primary sedimentary feature dating to 2501 +/- 8 million years ago (Ma). Molybdenum and rhenium were probably supplied to Archean oceans by oxidative weathering of crustal sulfide minerals. These findings point to the presence of small amounts of O2 in the environment more than 50 million years before the start of the Great Oxidation Event.
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“Concentration spikes at 2.5 to 2.66 Ga ago in Mo, Se, and Re and isotopic excursions of Mo, Se, U, and N have been interpreted as arising from O2 transients or “whiffs” of O2 (110–113).”
From The Archean atmosphere (2020) · cites this paper as [110]
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“More recent studies, most of which were driven by the emergence of redox-sensitive trace element proxies, suggest a more complex and dynamic evolution scenario for pO2 (7–11).”
From Rapid oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere 2.33 billion years ago (2016) · cites this paper as [7]
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“Strong Re and Mo enrichments and coupled Mo-Fe isotope data were interpreted as evidence for oxidative weathering of sulfide-bearing minerals on the continents, and thus the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis as early as ca. 2.6 Ga (Anbar et al., 2007; Kendall et al., 2010; Czaja et al., 2012; Stüeken et al., 2015b).”
From Iron formations: A global record of Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic environmental history (2017) · cites this paper as Anbar et al., 2007
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“The whiff is recorded by spikes in Mo and Re concentrations, elevated nitrogen isotope values, and iron speciation data (Anbar et al., 2007; Reinhard et al., 2009; Garvin et al., 2009);”
From Iron formations: A global record of Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic environmental history (2017) · cites this paper as Anbar et al., 2007
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“Irrespective of the causes for the delay in the rise of atmospheric O2, by 2.5 Ga we see evidence for oxygen accumulation in the atmosphere from the Mt. McRae Shale in Western Australia, recording transient oxidised conditions now widely known as the 'whiff' of oxygen (Anbar et al., 2007).”
From Iron formations: A global record of Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic environmental history (2017) · cites this paper as Anbar et al., 2007
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“They attributed d 238 U values above average upper crustal values that coincide with Mo and Re enrichments (Anbar et al., 2007) to be indicative of the oxidative mobilization of U, possibly within the water column itself.”
From Trace elements at the intersection of marine biological and geochemical evolution (2016) · cites this paper as Anbar et al., 2007
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Metadata
- Authors
- Anbar, A. D., Duan, Y., Lyons, T. W., Arnold, G. L., Kendall, B., Creaser, R. A., Kaufman, A. J., Gordon, G. W., Scott, C., Garvin, J., & Buick, R.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Riverside (US)
- Corresponding author
- Anbar, Ariel D.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2007-09-28
- Volume
- 317
- Issue
- 5846
- Pages
- 1903-1906
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W1998680662
- Cited by
- 1,024
- References
- 27
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- FWCI
- 26.92
- 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 › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Keywords
- Great Oxidation Event, Archean ocean, molybdenum, rhenium, oxidative weathering, sulfide minerals, chemostratigraphy, organic carbon
- MeSH terms
- Australia, Isotopes, Molybdenum, Oceans and Seas, Osmium, Oxidation-Reduction, Oxygen, Rhenium, Seawater, Sulfur, Sulfur Isotopes, Temperature, Uranium, Geologic Sediments
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