Evolution of the Cryogenian cratonic basins in China, paleo-oceanic environment and hydrocarbon generation mechanism of ancient source rocks, and exploration …

G Zhu, Z Zhang, H Jiang, L Yan, W Chen, T Li… - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Deep and ancient strata are significant successor fields for future oil and gas exploration.
Recently, a unit of thick high-quality interglacial black rock series was discovered between …

Global marine redox evolution from the late Neoproterozoic to the early Paleozoic constrained by the integration of Mo and U isotope records

GY Wei, NJ Planavsky, T He, F Zhang, RG Stockey… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The emergence and diversification of early animals is commonly thought to have coincided
with atmosphere and ocean oxygenation across the terminal Neoproterozoic and early …

Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

PF Hoffman, DS Abbot, Y Ashkenazy, DI Benn… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Geological evidence indicates that grounded ice sheets reached sea level at all latitudes
during two long-lived Cryogenian (58 and≥ 5 My) glaciations. Combined uranium-lead and …

Deglacial volcanism and reoxygenation in the aftermath of the Sturtian Snowball Earth

M Li, Y Xu, L Sun, J Chen, K Zhang, D Li… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The Cryogenian Sturtian and Marinoan Snowball Earth glaciations bracket a nonglacial
interval during which Demosponge and green-algal biomarkers first appear. To understand …

Extreme variability in atmospheric oxygen levels in the late Precambrian

AJ Krause, BJW Mills, AS Merdith, TM Lenton… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Mapping the history of atmospheric O2 during the late Precambrian is vital for evaluating
potential links to animal evolution. Ancient O2 levels are often inferred from geochemical …

Extensive marine anoxia during the terminal Ediacaran Period

F Zhang, S Xiao, B Kendall, SJ Romaniello, H Cui… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
The terminal Ediacaran Period witnessed the decline of the Ediacara biota (which may have
included many stem-group animals). To test whether oceanic anoxia might have played a …

Global and local drivers of the Ediacaran Shuram carbon isotope excursion

JF Busch, EB Hodgin, ASC Ahm, JM Husson… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran Shuram carbon isotope excursion (CIE) follows the regional
Gaskiers glaciation and occurs before the appearance of macroscopic animal fossils …

Multiple episodes of extensive marine anoxia linked to global warming and continental weathering following the latest Permian mass extinction

F Zhang, SJ Romaniello, TJ Algeo, KV Lau… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Explaining the~ 5-million-year delay in marine biotic recovery following the latest Permian
mass extinction, the largest biotic crisis of the Phanerozoic, is a fundamental challenge for …

Global marine redox changes drove the rise and fall of the Ediacara biota

F Zhang, S Xiao, SJ Romaniello, D Hardisty, C Li… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The role of O2 in the evolution of early animals, as represented by some members of the
Ediacara biota, has been heavily debated because current geochemical evidence paints a …

Abrupt global-ocean anoxia during the Late Ordovician–early Silurian detected using uranium isotopes of marine carbonates

R Bartlett, M Elrick, JR Wheeley… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Widespread marine anoxia is hypothesized as the trigger for the second pulse of the Late
Ordovician (Hirnantian) mass extinction based on lithologic and geochemical proxies that …