Global marine redox changes drove the rise and fall of the Ediacara biota

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A model for the oceanic mass balance of rhenium and implications for the extent of Proterozoic ocean anoxia

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Extensive marine anoxia during the terminal Ediacaran Period

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Uranium isotope evidence for an expansion of anoxia in terminal Ediacaran oceans

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Demosponge steroid biomarker 26-methylstigmastane provides evidence for Neoproterozoic animals

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A new estimate of detrital redox-sensitive metal concentrations and variability in fluxes to marine sediments

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Rock magnetic chronostratigraphy of the Shuram carbon isotope excursion: Wonoka Formation, Australia

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Rock magnetic cyclostratigraphy of the Doushantuo Formation, South China and its implications for the duration of the Shuram carbon isotope excursion

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Stable carbon isotopes of sedimentary kerogens and carbonaceous macrofossils from the Ediacaran Miaohe Member in South China: Implications for stratigraphic correlation and sources of sedimentary organic carbon

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The stratigraphic complexity of the middle Ediacaran carbon isotopic record in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China, and its implications for the age and chemostratigraphic significance of the Shuram excursion

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Towards an Ediacaran Time Scale: Problems, Protocols, and Prospects

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Uncovering the spatial heterogeneity of Ediacaran carbon cycling

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Dodging snowballs: Geochronology of the Gaskiers glaciation and the first appearance of the Ediacaran biota

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Integrated geochemical-petrographic insights from component-selective δ238U of Cryogenian marine carbonates

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Global-ocean redox variation during the middle-late Permian through Early Triassic based on uranium isotope and Th/U trends of marine carbonates

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Marine anoxia and delayed Earth system recovery after the end-Permian extinction

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Uranium isotope fractionation in Saanich Inlet: A modern analog study of a paleoredox tracer

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Experimental determination of factors controlling U/Ca of aragonite precipitated from seawater: Implications for interpreting coral skeleton

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

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Uranium isotopic compositions of the crust and ocean: Age corrections, U budget and global extent of modern anoxia

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Statistical analysis of iron geochemical data suggests limited late Proterozoic oxygenation

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Dynamic redox conditions control late Ediacaran metazoan ecosystems in the Nama Group, Namibia

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Paleomagnetic and cyclostratigraphic constraints on the synchroneity and duration of the Shuram carbon isotope excursion, Johnnie Formation, Death Valley Region, CA

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Stratigraphic position of the Ediacaran Miaohe biota and its constrains on the age of the upper Doushantuo δ 13 C anomaly in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China

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A modern framework for the interpretation of 238U/235U in studies of ancient ocean redox

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Deep-Water Ediacaran Fossils from Northwestern Canada: Taphonomy, Ecology, and Evolution

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Scratch Traces of Large Ediacara Bilaterian Animals

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Proterozoic oxygen rise linked to shifting balance between seafloor and terrestrial weathering

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Searching for an oxygenation event in the fossiliferous Ediacaran of northwestern Canada

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The stratigraphic relationship between the Shuram carbon isotope excursion, the oxygenation of Neoproterozoic oceans, and the first appearance of the Ediacara biota and bilaterian trace fossils in northwestern Canada

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Uranium concentrations and 238U/235U isotope ratios in modern carbonates from the Bahamas: Assessing a novel paleoredox proxy

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Oxygen, ecology, and the Cambrian radiation of animals

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The end of the Ediacara biota: Extinction, biotic replacement, or Cheshire Cat?

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The Shuram and subsequent Ediacaran carbon isotope excursions from southwest Laurentia, and implications for environmental stability during the metazoan radiation

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

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An early Ediacaran assemblage of macroscopic and morphologically differentiated eukaryotes

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

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The stratigraphic expression of a large negative carbon isotope excursion from the Ediacaran Johnnie Formation, Death Valley

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Cerium anomaly variations in Ediacaran–earliest Cambrian carbonates from the Yangtze Gorges area, South China: Implications for oxygenation of coeval shallow seawater

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Rapid expansion of oceanic anoxia immediately before the end-Permian mass extinction

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A burial diagenesis origin for the Ediacaran Shuram–Wonoka carbon isotope anomaly

(2010) Louis A. Derry   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

First evidence for locomotion in the Ediacara biota from the 565 Ma Mistaken Point Formation, Newfoundland

(2010) Alexander G. Liu et al.   GEOLOGY

A Stratified Redox Model for the Ediacaran Ocean

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Constraints on 87Sr/86Sr of Late Ediacaran seawater: insight from Siberian high-Sr limestones

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The late Precambrian greening of the Earth

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Pulsed oxidation and biological evolution in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation

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The Avalon Explosion: Evolution of Ediacara Morphospace

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On the eve of animal radiation: phylogeny, ecology and evolution of the Ediacara biota

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