Environmental effects on ammonium adsorption onto clay minerals: Experimental constraints and applications

AJ Yu, X Lin, J Zhu, H He, L Li - Applied Clay Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Adsorption of ammonium (NH 4+) by clay minerals in soil/sediment and altered
oceanic crust plays an important role in Earth's geological nitrogen cycle by transporting …

[HTML][HTML] Equilibrium partitioning and isotopic fractionation of nitrogen between biotite, plagioclase, and K-feldspar during magmatic differentiation

TJ Boocock, EE Stüeken, GM Bybee, R König… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2023 - Elsevier
A significant portion of the continental crust is composed of plutonic igneous rocks. However,
little is known about the geochemical behaviour of N between the different minerals during …

A primary magmatic source of nitrogen to Earth's crust

TJ Boocock, S Mikhail, AJ Boyce, J Prytulak… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The igneous portion of Earth's continental crust represents a long-term sink of terrestrial
nitrogen, but the origin of the nitrogen in this reservoir remains ambiguous. Possible sources …

Reconstructing nitrogen sources to Earth's earliest biosphere at 3.7 Ga

EE Stüeken, T Boocock, K Szilas, S Mikhail… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Earth's sedimentary record has preserved evidence of life in rocks of low metamorphic grade
back to about 3.2–3.5 billion years ago (Ga). These lines of evidence include information …

Neoarchaean oxygen-based nitrogen cycle en route to the Great Oxidation Event

A Pellerin, C Thomazo, M Ader, C Rossignol, ES Rego… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The nitrogen isotopic composition of sedimentary rocks (δ15N) can trace redox-dependent
biological pathways and early Earth oxygenation,. However, there is no substantial change …

Modern analogs for ammonia flux from terrestrial hydrothermal features to the Archean atmosphere

JD Felix - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The isotopic composition of nitrogen in the rock record provides valuable evidence of
reactive nitrogen sources and processing on early Earth, but the wide range of δ15N values …

Black shales and mesozonal quartz vein‐hosted Au: The Truchas Syncline, Spain and the Harlech Dome, Wales, a comparative study

JK Cunningham, F Gómez‐Fernández… - Geological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A comparative study of quartz vein‐hosted gold occurrences associated with Palaeozoic
metapelites in two areas of Wales and Spain combines new, previously unpublished and …

Hydrothermal regeneration of ammonium as a basin-scale driver of primary productivity

EE Stüeken, K Kirsimäe, A Lepland, AR Prave - Astrobiology, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Hydrothermal vents are important targets in the search for life on other planets due to their
potential to generate key catalytic surfaces and organic compounds for biogenesis. Less …

Nitrogenous altered volcanic glasses as targets for Mars sample return: examples from Antarctica and Iceland

MP Nikitczuk, GE Bebout, T Ota… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mars exploration is focused on seeking evidence of habitable environments and microbial
life. Terrestrial glassy basalts may be the closest Mars‐surface weathering analog and …

Iron‐mediated anaerobic ammonium oxidation recorded in the early Archean ferruginous ocean

A Pellerin, C Thomazo, M Ader, J Marin‐Carbonne… - 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The nitrogen isotopic composition of organic matter is controlled by metabolic activity and
redox speciation and has therefore largely been used to uncover the early evolution of life …