Decline and fall of the Ediacarans: late‐Neoproterozoic extinctions and the rise of the modern biosphere

G Mussini, FS Dunn - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The end‐Neoproterozoic transition marked a gradual but permanent shift between distinct
configurations of Earth's biosphere. This interval witnessed the demise of the enigmatic …

Geochemical Characteristics of Trace Elements and Mineralization Model of the Ediacaran-Early Cambrian Phosphorites, South China

L Zhang, M Zhang, G Zhu - ACS omega, 2024 - ACS Publications
As a nonrenewable resource, phosphate rock is an important support for the development
and survival of the national economy. The regional distribution and output of phosphate rock …

Oxygen increase and the pacing of early animal evolution

K Kaiho, A Shizuya, M Kikuchi, T Komiya… - Global and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
While it is widely accepted that early animals originated and primarily evolved during the
Neoproterozoic to Cambrian period, there remains ongoing debate over how fluctuations in …

Seawater barium and sulfide removal improved marine habitability for the Cambrian Explosion of early animals

W Wei, LH Dong, S Xiao, Y Bo Lin, L Xu… - National Science …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
An increase in atmospheric p O2 has been proposed as a trigger of the Cambrian Explosion
at∼ 539–514 Ma, but the mechanistic linkage remains unclear. To gain insights into marine …

[HTML][HTML] Vanadium isotope fractionation during plutonic differentiation and implications for the isotopic composition of the upper continental crust

MA Stow, J Prytulak, MCS Humphreys… - Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
The analysis of emerging stable isotopic systems in clastic sedimentary rocks is increasingly
used to determine the average composition of the upper continental crust through geological …

Reactive vanadium and iron fluxes in different modern sedimentary environments

J Garcia-Orozco, MA Huerta-Diaz, XL Otero… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
This study evaluated the removal of the metals (Me) vanadium and iron associated with the
operationally defined HCl-extractable (Me HCl), pyrite (Me pyr), and reactive (Me reac= Me …

Reconciling biogeochemical redox proxies: Tracking variable bottom water oxygenation during OAE-2 using vanadium isotopes

S Li, O Friedrich, SG Nielsen, F Wu… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Oceanic Anoxic Event-2 (OAE-2,∼ 94 Ma ago) is marked by a significant
perturbation to the carbon and nutrient cycles. Despite the general idea of widespread …

Rapid determination of V isotopes with MC-ICP-MS: new developments in sample purification

Z Zeng, F Wu - Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Vanadium (V) isotopes are a powerful tool for fingerprinting the redox-state variations in
geological processes, but their widespread application is hindered by the complicated …

新元古代氧化事件驱动海洋Ba 循环变化

卫炜, 隋佩珊, 陈婷婷, 黄方 - 高校地质学报, 2024 - geology.nju.edu.cn
新元古代晚期出现大气和海洋氧气含量显著升高的现象, 即新元古代氧化事件(NOE).
该事件可能促使了后生动物的出现与辐射以及复杂生态系统的建立. 海洋中的氧化过程可改变 …

Magmatic thermal influence on the metallic element composition of Xiamaling Formation shale: Implications for oil–source correlation and hydrocarbon potential …

Q Pang, G Hu, W Sun, C Wu, Q Meng - Geoenergy Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The majority of current studies on the influence of magmatic intrusions on shale have
focused on how these intrusions affect organic geochemistry and shale reservoir properties …