A Cenozoic Record of Deep Oceanic Zn Isotopic Composition in Ferromanganese Crusts

M Zhao, N Planavsky, X Wang, Y Zhang… - American Journal of …, 2023 - ajsonline.org
Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

The links between Neoproterozoic tectonics, paleoenvironment and Cambrian explosion in the Yangtze Block, China

Y Dong, B Hui, S Sun, J Sun, R Zang, B Zhang… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The correlation between Neoproterozoic tectonics, paleoenvironment and early life are
crucial for understanding the evolution of the Earth's habitability. The Yangtze Block …

Was the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion a globally synchronized early diagenetic event? Insights from methane-derived authigenic carbonates in the uppermost …

H Cui, AJ Kaufman, S Xiao, C Zhou, XM Liu - Chemical Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran Period is characterized by the most profound negative carbon
isotope (δ 13 C) excursion in Earth history, the Shuram Excursion. Various hypotheses …

Ediacaran integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

C Zhou, X Yuan, S Xiao, Z Chen, H Hua - Science China Earth Sciences, 2019 - Springer
Ediacaran successions occur widely in various depositional facies in South China and yield
a series of fossil Lagerstätten, providing a complete fossil record for the evolution of marine …

Interlinked marine cycles of methane, manganese, and sulfate in the post-Marinoan Doushantuo cap dolostone

C Cai, D Liu, Y Hu, T Huang, Z Jiang, C Xu - Geochimica et Cosmochimica …, 2023 - Elsevier
The strongly 13 C-depleted calcite in the Doushantuo cap dolostones (∼ 635 Ma) of South
China is considered to form via thermochemical or biological oxidation of methane by sulfate …

A transient peak in marine sulfate after the 635-Ma snowball Earth

Y Peng, H Bao, G Jiang, P Crockford… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
A series of dramatic oceanic and atmospheric events occurred in the immediate aftermath of
the Marinoan “snowball Earth” meltdown∼ 635 My ago. However, at the 10-to 100-ky …

Deposition or diagenesis? Probing the Ediacaran Shuram excursion in South China by SIMS

H Cui, K Kitajima, IJ Orland, S Xiao, JM Baele… - Global and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran Period (ca. 635–541 Ma) witnessed the earliest paleontological
evidence for macroscopic animals (ie, Ediacara biota) and geochemical observations of the …

Sedimentology and chemostratigraphy of the terminal Ediacaran Dengying Formation at the Gaojiashan section, South China

H Cui, S Xiao, Y Cai, S Peek, RE Plummer… - Geological …, 2019 - cambridge.org
The terminal Ediacaran Dengying Formation (c. 551.1–538.8 Ma) in South China is one of
two successions where Ediacara-type macrofossils are preserved in carbonate facies along …

Testing the preservation potential of early diagenetic dolomites as geochemical archives

M Mueller, OA Igbokwe, B Walter, CL Pederson… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Early marine diagenetic dolomite is a rather thermodynamically‐stable carbonate phase and
has potential to act as an archive of marine porewater properties. However, the variety of …

Global or regional? Constraining the origins of the middle Bambuí carbon cycle anomaly in Brazil

H Cui, LV Warren, GJ Uhlein, J Okubo, XM Liu… - Precambrian …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran-Cambrian Bambuí Group in Brazil records an anomalously positive
excursion in carbonate carbon isotopes (δ 13 C carb) with a sustained plateau of ca.+ …