The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere

The Meaning of Stromatolites

(2013) Tanja Bosak et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Large-scale fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric and oceanic oxygen levels from the record of U in shales

(2013) C.A. Partin et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Atmospheric oxygenation three billion years ago

(2013) Sean A. Crowe et al.   NATURE

Long-term sedimentary recycling of rare sulphur isotope anomalies

(2013) Christopher T. Reinhard et al.   NATURE

Mo isotopic composition of the mid-Neoproterozoic ocean: An iron formation perspective

(2013) Geoffrey J. Baldwin et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Proterozoic ocean redox and biogeochemical stasis

(2013) C. T. Reinhard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oxygen, ecology, and the Cambrian radiation of animals

(2013) E. A. Sperling et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nitrogen cycle feedbacks as a control on euxinia in the mid-Proterozoic ocean

(2013) R.A. Boyle et al.   Nature Communications

Ocean oxygenation in the wake of the Marinoan glaciation

(2012) Swapan K. Sahoo et al.   NATURE

A bistable organic-rich atmosphere on the Neoarchaean Earth

(2012) Aubrey L. Zerkle et al.   Nature Geoscience

Sulfur record of rising and falling marine oxygen and sulfate levels during the Lomagundi event

(2012) N. J. Planavsky et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Oxygen overshoot and recovery during the early Paleoproterozoic

(2011) A. Bekker et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Neoproterozoic oxygenation event: Environmental perturbations and biogeochemical cycling

(2011) Lawrence M. Och et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Ferruginous Conditions: A Dominant Feature of the Ocean through Earth's History

(2011) S. W. Poulton et al.   Elements

Millimeter-scale concentration gradients of hydrocarbons in Archean shales: Live-oil escape or fingerprint of contamination?

(2011) Jochen J. Brocks   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Does the global stratigraphic reproducibility of δ13C in Neoproterozoic carbonates require a marine origin? A Pliocene–Pleistocene comparison

(2011) P.K. Swart et al.   GEOLOGY

Aerobic bacterial pyrite oxidation and acid rock drainage during the Great Oxidation Event

(2011) Kurt O. Konhauser et al.   NATURE

Widespread iron-rich conditions in the mid-Proterozoic ocean

(2011) Noah J. Planavsky et al.   NATURE

Atmospheric oxygenation caused by a change in volcanic degassing pressure

(2011) Fabrice Gaillard et al.   NATURE

The oxidation state of Hadean magmas and implications for early Earth’s atmosphere

(2011) Dustin Trail et al.   NATURE

Enigmatic origin of the largest-known carbon isotope excursion in Earth's history

(2011) John P. Grotzinger et al.   Nature Geoscience

Microaerobic steroid biosynthesis and the molecular fossil record of Archean life

(2011) J. R. Waldbauer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Iron Formation: The Sedimentary Product of a Complex Interplay among Mantle, Tectonic, Oceanic, and Biospheric Processes

(2010) A. Bekker et al.   ECONOMIC GEOLOGY

The evolution of the marine phosphate reservoir

(2010) Noah J. Planavsky et al.   NATURE

Possible animal-body fossils in pre-Marinoan limestones from South Australia

(2010) Adam C. Maloof et al.   Nature Geoscience

Spatial variability in oceanic redox structure 1.8 billion years ago

(2010) Simon W. Poulton et al.   Nature Geoscience

Geological constraints on the origin of oxygenic photosynthesis

(2010) James Farquhar et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

History of biological metal utilization inferred through phylogenomic analysis of protein structures

(2010) C. L. Dupont et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cryogenian Glaciation and the Onset of Carbon-Isotope Decoupling

(2010) N. L. Swanson-Hysell et al.   SCIENCE

Explaining the Structure of the Archean Mass-Independent Sulfur Isotope Record

(2010) I. Halevy et al.   SCIENCE

Tracking Euxinia in the Ancient Ocean: A Multiproxy Perspective and Proterozoic Case Study

(2009) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane: Progress with an Unknown Process

(2009) Katrin Knittel et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Experimental silicification of the extremophilic ArchaeaPyrococcus abyssiandMethanocaldococcus jannaschii: applications in the search for evidence of life in early Earth and extraterrestrial rocks

(2009) F. ORANGE et al.   Geobiology

Coevolution of metal availability and nitrogen assimilation in cyanobacteria and algae

(2009) J. B. GLASS et al.   Geobiology

Re–Os and Mo isotope systematics of black shales from the Middle Proterozoic Velkerri and Wollogorang Formations, McArthur Basin, northern Australia

(2009) Brian Kendall et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Rapid, oxygen-dependent microbial Mn(II) oxidation kinetics at sub-micromolar oxygen concentrations in the Black Sea suboxic zone

(2009) Brian G. Clement et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Reconstructing Earth's surface oxidation across the Archean-Proterozoic transition

(2009) Qingjun Guo et al.   GEOLOGY

Oceanic nickel depletion and a methanogen famine before the Great Oxidation Event

(2009) Kurt O. Konhauser et al.   NATURE

Early Earth: Oxygen for heavy-metal fans

(2009) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

Anoxygenic photosynthesis modulated Proterozoic oxygen and sustained Earth's middle age

(2009) D. T. Johnston et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Potential new production estimates in four eastern boundary upwelling ecosystems

(2009) Monique Messié et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

A Late Archean Sulfidic Sea Stimulated by Early Oxidative Weathering of the Continents

(2009) C. T. Reinhard et al.   SCIENCE

A Revised, Hazy Methane Greenhouse for the Archean Earth

(2008) Jacob D. Haqq-Misra et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Reassessing the first appearance of eukaryotes and cyanobacteria

(2008) Birger Rasmussen et al.   NATURE

Tracing the stepwise oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean

(2008) C. Scott et al.   NATURE

The rise of atmospheric oxygen

(2008) Lee R. Kump   NATURE

Palaeoproterozoic ice houses and the evolution of oxygen-mediating enzymes: the case for a late origin of photosystem II

(2008) J. L Kirschvink et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Photoferrotrophs thrive in an Archean Ocean analogue

(2008) S. A. Crowe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ferruginous Conditions Dominated Later Neoproterozoic Deep-Water Chemistry

(2008) D. E. Canfield et al.   SCIENCE

Rise in seawater sulphate concentration associated with the Paleoproterozoic positive carbon isotope excursion: evidence from sulphate evaporites in the ∼2.2–2.1 Gyr shallow-marine Lucknow Formation, South Africa

(2008) S. Schröder et al.   TERRA NOVA