Rapid timescale for an oxic transition during the Great Oxidation Event and the instability of low atmospheric O 2

Strong evidence for a weakly oxygenated ocean–atmosphere system during the Proterozoic

(2022) Changle Wang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A revised lower estimate of ozone columns during Earth’s oxygenated history

(2022) G. J. Cooke et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Bulk and grain-scale minor sulfur isotope data reveal complexities in the dynamics of Earth’s oxygenation

(2022) Gareth Izon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Photochemical modelling of atmospheric oxygen levels confirms two stable states

(2021) Bethan S. Gregory et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A 200-million-year delay in permanent atmospheric oxygenation

(2021) Simon W. Poulton et al.   NATURE

Reconciling evidence of oxidative weathering and atmospheric anoxia on Archean Earth

(2021) Aleisha C. Johnson et al.   Science Advances

The Archean atmosphere

(2020) David C. Catling et al.   Science Advances

The Great Oxidation Event preceded a Paleoproterozoic “snowball Earth”

(2020) Matthew R. Warke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mantle data imply a decline of oxidizable volcanic gases could have triggered the Great Oxidation

(2020) Shintaro Kadoya et al.   Nature Communications

High burial efficiency is required to explain mass balance in Earth's early carbon cycle

(2020) Michael Kipp et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Exoplanet Biosignatures: Understanding Oxygen as a Biosignature in the Context of Its Environment

(2018) Victoria S. Meadows et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Bayesian Analysis of the Glacial-Interglacial Methane Increase Constrained by Stable Isotopes and Earth System Modeling

(2018) Peter O. Hopcroft et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Constraining the climate and ocean pH of the early Earth with a geological carbon cycle model

(2018) Joshua Krissansen-Totton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Proterozoic Milankovitch cycles and the history of the solar system

(2018) Stephen R. Meyers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A small marine biosphere in the Proterozoic

(2018) Thomas A. Laakso et al.   Geobiology

Terrestrial methane fluxes and Proterozoic climate

(2017) Mingyu Zhao et al.   GEOLOGY

Biological regulation of atmospheric chemistry en route to planetary oxygenation

(2017) Gareth Izon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Timing and tempo of the Great Oxidation Event

(2017) Ashley P. Gumsley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Limited role for methane in the mid-Proterozoic greenhouse

(2016) Stephanie L. Olson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Orbital forcing of climate 1.4 billion years ago

(2015) Shuichang Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modeling the signature of sulfur mass-independent fractionation produced in the Archean atmosphere

(2014) Mark W. Claire et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Low Mid-Proterozoic atmospheric oxygen levels and the delayed rise of animals

(2014) N. J. Planavsky et al.   SCIENCE

Correlation of Paleoproterozoic glaciations based on U–Pb zircon ages for tuff beds in the Transvaal and Huronian Supergroups

(2013) Birger Rasmussen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Atmospheric sulfur rearrangement 2.7 billion years ago: Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis

(2013) Florian Kurzweil et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

THE EVOLUTION OF SOLAR FLUX FROM 0.1 nm TO 160 μm: QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES FOR PLANETARY STUDIES

(2012) Mark W. Claire et al.   ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The largest volcanic eruptions on Earth

(2010) Scott E. Bryan et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS