The Neoproterozoic oxygenation event: Environmental perturbations and biogeochemical cycling

LM Och, GA Shields-Zhou - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
The oxygen content of the Earth's surface environment is thought to have increased in two
broad steps: the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) around the Archean–Proterozoic boundary …

Stratigraphy and paleogeography of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (ca. 635–551 Ma) in south China

G Jiang, X Shi, S Zhang, Y Wang, S Xiao - Gondwana Research, 2011 - Elsevier
The Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (ca. 635–551Ma) in South China contains
exceptionally well-preserved fossils of multicellular eukaryotes including early animals, and …

Uncovering the Ediacaran phosphorus cycle

MS Dodd, W Shi, C Li, Z Zhang, M Cheng, H Gu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Phosphorus is a limiting nutrient that is thought to control oceanic oxygen levels to a large
extent,–. A possible increase in marine phosphorus concentrations during the Ediacaran …

Oceanic oxygenation events in the anoxic Ediacaran ocean

SK Sahoo, NJ Planavsky, G Jiang, B Kendall… - …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The ocean‐atmosphere system is typically envisioned to have gone through a unidirectional
oxygenation with significant oxygen increases in the earliest (ca. 635 Ma), middle (ca. 580 …

Strontium isotope stratigraphy

JM McArthur - 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Strontium Isotope Stratigraphy | Application of Modern Stratigraphic TechniquesTheory and
Case Histories | GeoScienceWorld Books | GeoScienceWorld Skip to Main Content …

Progress towards an improved Precambrian seawater 87Sr/86Sr curve

X Chen, Y Zhou, GA Shields - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The secular trend of seawater strontium isotope ratio (87 Sr/86 Sr) reflects changes in the
relative contributions of continental versus mantle reservoirs to ocean composition, and …

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 …

Towards an Ediacaran time scale: problems, protocols, and prospects

S Xiao, GM Narbonne, C Zhou, M Laflamme… - Episodes Journal of …, 2016 - episodes.org
Abstract The Ediacaran Period follows the Cryogenian Period in the wake of a snowball
Earth glaciation and precedes the Cambrian Period with its rising tide of animal radiation. It …

Uranium and molybdenum isotope evidence for an episode of widespread ocean oxygenation during the late Ediacaran Period

B Kendall, T Komiya, TW Lyons, SM Bates… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
To improve estimates of the extent of ocean oxygenation during the late Ediacaran Period,
we measured the U and Mo isotope compositions of euxinic (anoxic and sulfidic) organic …

An early Ediacaran assemblage of macroscopic and morphologically differentiated eukaryotes

X Yuan, Z Chen, S Xiao, C Zhou, H Hua - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
The deep-water Avalon biota (about 579 to 565 million years old) is often regarded as the
earliest-known fossil assemblage with macroscopic and morphologically complex life forms …