[HTML][HTML] Fjords as aquatic critical zones (ACZs)

TS Bianchi, S Arndt, WEN Austin, DI Benn… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
In recent decades, the land-ocean aquatic continuum, commonly defined as the interface, or
transition zone, between terrestrial ecosystems and the open ocean, has undergone …

Uranium isotope fractionation

MB Andersen, CH Stirling… - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
This review focuses on the rapidly growing field of natural 238U/235U variability, largely
driven by the technical advances in the measurement of U isotope ratios by mass …

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 …

Uranium isotope evidence for two episodes of deoxygenation during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

MO Clarkson, CH Stirling, HC Jenkyns… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE 2), occurring∼ 94 million years ago, was one of the most
extreme carbon cycle and climatic perturbations of the Phanerozoic Eon. It was typified by a …

Uranium stable isotope fractionation in the Black Sea: Modern calibration of the 238U/235U paleo-redox proxy

JM Rolison, CH Stirling, R Middag… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
The isotopic compositions of redox-sensitive metals, including uranium (U), in marine
sediments have recently emerged as powerful diagnostic tracers of the redox state of the …

Uranium isotope evidence for temporary ocean oxygenation in the aftermath of the Sturtian Snowball Earth

KV Lau, FA Macdonald, K Maher, JL Payne - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
The appearance and radiation of animals are commonly attributed to Neoproterozoic
oceanic oxygenation, yet independent geochemical evidence for such an event remains …

Evidence for high organic carbon export to the early Cambrian seafloor

M Cheng, C Li, C Jin, H Wang, TJ Algeo… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
Oxygenation of the early Cambrian ocean is commonly ascribed to high organic export to
the sediment due to the rise of algae and filter-feeding animals, but direct evidence of …

Coupled Mo-U abundances and isotopes in a small marine euxinic basin: Constraints on processes in euxinic basins

E Bura-Nakić, MB Andersen, C Archer… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Sedimentary molybdenum (Mo) and uranium (U) abundances, as well as their isotope
systematics, are used to reconstruct the evolution of the oxygenation state of the surface …

Organic carbon burial in fjords: Terrestrial versus marine inputs

X Cui, TS Bianchi, C Savage, RW Smith - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Fjords have been identified as sites of enhanced organic carbon (OC) burial and may play
an important role in regulating climate change on glacial–interglacial timescales …

A Mesoarchean shift in uranium isotope systematics

X Wang, NJ Planavsky, A Hofmann, EE Saupe… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
Oxygenic photosynthesis fundamentally transformed all major biogeochemical cycles and
increased the size and complexity of Earth's biosphere. However, there is still debate about …