Biological diversification linked to environmental stabilization following the Sturtian Snowball glaciation

Tonian Carbonates Record Phosphate‐Rich Shallow Seas

(2023) Sascha Roest‐Ellis et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Geochronological constraints on Cryogenian ice ages: Zircon U Pb ages from a shelf section in South China

(2023) Xiaochen Ma et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Earth’s Great Oxidation Event facilitated by the rise of sedimentary phosphorus recycling

(2022) Lewis J. Alcott et al.   Nature Geoscience

Nitrogen isotope evidence for oxygenated upper ocean during the Cryogenian interglacial period

(2022) Guangyou Zhu et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Enhanced phosphorus recycling during past oceanic anoxia amplified by low rates of apatite authigenesis

(2022) Nina M. Papadomanolaki et al.   Science Advances

A global reassessment of the controls on iron speciation in modern sediments and sedimentary rocks: A dominant role for diagenesis

(2022) V. Pasquier et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Oceanic water chemistry evolution and its implications for post-glacial black shale formation: Insights from the Cryogenian Datangpo Formation, South China

(2021) Jiayi Ai et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Snowballs in Africa: Sectioning a long-lived Neoproterozoic carbonate platform and its bathyal foreslope (NW Namibia)

(2021) Paul F. Hoffman et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Ca and Mg isotope record of the Cryogenian Trezona carbon isotope excursion

(2021) Anne-Sofie C. Ahm et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Fingerprinting local controls on the Neoproterozoic carbon cycle with the isotopic record of Cryogenian carbonates in the Panamint Range, California

(2021) Lyle L. Nelson et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A chemical weathering control on the delivery of particulate iron to the continental shelf

(2021) Guang-Yi Wei et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Geologic controls on phytoplankton elemental composition

(2021) Shlomit Sharoni et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The tempo of Ediacaran evolution

(2021) Chuan Yang et al.   Science Advances

Phosphorus-limited conditions in the early Neoproterozoic ocean maintained low levels of atmospheric oxygen

(2020) Romain Guilbaud et al.   Nature Geoscience

U-Pb and Re-Os geochronology tracks stratigraphic condensation in the Sturtian snowball Earth aftermath

(2020) Alan D. Rooney et al.   GEOLOGY

Development of Iron Speciation Reference Materials for Palaeoredox Analysis

(2020) Lewis J. Alcott et al.   GEOSTANDARDS AND GEOANALYTICAL RESEARCH

Ediacaran reorganization of the marine phosphorus cycle

(2020) Thomas A. Laakso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tracing water column euxinia in Eastern Mediterranean Sapropels S5 and S7

(2020) Ayelet Benkovitz et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Enhanced chemical weathering triggered an expansion of euxinic seawater in the aftermath of the Sturtian glaciation

(2020) Guang-Yi Wei et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Geochronological constraints on Neoproterozoic rifting and onset of the Marinoan glaciation from the Kingston Peak Formation in Death Valley, California (USA)

(2020) Lyle L. Nelson et al.   GEOLOGY

Oldest fossil ciliates from the Cryogenian glacial interlude reinterpreted as possible red algal spores

(2020) Phoebe A. Cohen et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Iron-rich carbonate tidal deposits, Angepena Formation, South Australia: A redox-stratified Cryogenian basin

(2020) Brennan O'Connell et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Neoproterozoic Geochronology and Provenance of the Adelaide Superbasin

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Evolution of paleo-weathering during the late Neoproterozoic in South China: Implications for paleoclimatic conditions and organic carbon burial

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Algal origin of sponge sterane biomarkers negates the oldest evidence for animals in the rock record

(2020) Ilya Bobrovskiy et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Extending full-plate tectonic models into deep time: Linking the Neoproterozoic and the Phanerozoic

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Calibrating the terminations of Cryogenian global glaciations

(2019) Chuanming Zhou et al.   GEOLOGY

Phosphorus cycling in Lake Cadagno, Switzerland: A low sulfate euxinic ocean analogue

(2019) Yijun Xiong et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Seawater-buffered diagenesis, destruction of carbon isotope excursions, and the composition of DIC in Neoproterozoic oceans

(2019) Paul F. Hoffman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Development of a modified SEDEX phosphorus speciation method for ancient rocks and modern iron-rich sediments

(2019) Jennifer Thompson et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Lithofacies and glacio-tectonic deformation structures of the Tiesi'ao/Dongshanfeng Formation on the Yangtze Block, South China: Implications for Sturtian Glaciation dynamics

(2019) Chunlin Hu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The chemical index of alteration (CIA) as a proxy for climate change during glacial-interglacial transitions in Earth history

(2019) Ping Wang et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Large accumulations of 34S-enriched pyrite in a low-sulfate marine basin: The Sturtian Nanhua Basin, South China

(2019) Ping Wang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Cryogenian Aspidella from northwestern Canada

(2019) Greg Burzynski et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Linking the rise of atmospheric oxygen to growth in the continental phosphorus inventory

(2018) Grant M. Cox et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Cyclostratigraphic constraints on the duration of the Datangpo Formation and the onset age of the Nantuo (Marinoan) glaciation in South China

(2018) Xiujuan Bao et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

(2018) Alex I. Sheen et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Diagenetic effects on uranium isotope fractionation in carbonate sediments from the Bahamas

(2018) Xinming Chen et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Redox condition in the Nanhua Basin during the waning of the Sturtian glaciation: A chromium-isotope perspective

(2018) Wei Wei et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

U-Pb zircon (CA-ID-TIMS) age supports globally synchronous Sturtian deglaciation

(2018) Grant M. Cox et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Contrasting Mo–U enrichments of the basal Datangpo Formation in South China: Implications for the Cryogenian interglacial ocean redox

(2018) Yuntao Ye et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

An evaluation of sedimentary molybdenum and iron as proxies for pore fluid paleoredox conditions

(2018) Dalton S. Hardisty et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

The iron paleoredox proxies: A guide to the pitfalls, problems and proper practice

(2018) Rob Raiswell et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

A deep marine organic carbon reservoir in the non-glacial Cryogenian ocean (Nanhua Basin, South China) revealed by organic carbon isotopes

(2018) Xi Peng et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Biologically agglutinated eukaryotic microfossil from Cryogenian cap carbonates

(2017) K. R. Moore et al.   Geobiology

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

(2017) Devon B. Cole et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Neoproterozoic carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Amadeus Basin, central Australia

(2017) Charles Verdel et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Bacterial sulfur disproportionation constrains timing of Neoproterozoic oxygenation

(2017) Marcus Kunzmann et al.   GEOLOGY

Paleogeographic forcing of the strontium isotopic cycle in the Neoproterozoic

(2017) Yves Goddéris et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

A full-plate global reconstruction of the Neoproterozoic

(2017) Andrew S. Merdith et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The rise of algae in Cryogenian oceans and the emergence of animals

(2017) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   NATURE

PYRITIZED CRYOGENIAN CYANOBACTERIAL FOSSILS FROM ARCTIC ALASKA

(2017) KELSEY R. MOORE et al.   PALAIOS

Ocean redox conditions between the snowballs – Geochemical constraints from Arena Formation, East Greenland

(2017) Eva L. Scheller et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Multiproxy isotope constraints on ocean compositional changes across the late Neoproterozoic Ghaub glaciation, Otavi Group, Namibia

(2017) A.S. Rodler et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Delayed Neoproterozoic oceanic oxygenation: Evidence from Mo isotopes of the Cryogenian Datangpo Formation

(2017) Meng Cheng et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Global species richness record and biostratigraphic potential of early to middle Neoproterozoic eukaryote fossils

(2017) Leigh Anne Riedman et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Cryogenian of Yukon

(2017) Francis A. Macdonald et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Newly discovered Sturtian cap carbonate in the Nanhua Basin, South China

(2017) Wenchao Yu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Biomass recycling and Earth’s early phosphorus cycle

(2017) Michael A. Kipp et al.   Science Advances

Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

(2017) Paul F. Hoffman et al.   Science Advances

Neoproterozoic stratigraphy of the Zavkhan terrane of Mongolia: The backbone for Cryogenian and early Ediacaran chemostratigraphic records

(2016) U. Bold et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Major and trace element geochemistry of the Neoproterozoic syn-glacial Fulu iron formation, South China

(2016) LIANJUN FENG et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Duration and nature of the end-Cryogenian (Marinoan) glaciation

(2016) Anthony R. Prave et al.   GEOLOGY

The marine redox change and nitrogen cycle in the Early Cryogenian interglacial time: Evidence from nitrogen isotopes and Mo contents of the basal Datangpo Formation, northeastern Guizhou, South China

(2016) Wei Wei et al.   Journal of Earth Science

Evolution of the global phosphorus cycle

(2016) Christopher T. Reinhard et al.   NATURE

Genesis of Cryogenian Datangpo manganese deposit: Hydrothermal influence and episodic post-glacial ventilation of Nanhua Basin, South China

(2016) Wenchao Yu et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The Late Cryogenian Warm Interval, NE Svalbard: Chemostratigraphy and genesis

(2016) Ian J. Fairchild et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Geochemistry of Neoproterozoic black shales from Svalbard: Implications for oceanic redox conditions spanning Cryogenian glaciations

(2015) Marcus Kunzmann et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Oxygenation of a Cryogenian ocean (Nanhua Basin, South China) revealed by pyrite Fe isotope compositions

(2015) Feifei Zhang et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Did phosphorus derived from the weathering of large igneous provinces fertilize the Neoproterozoic ocean?

(2015) Forrest Horton   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Oxygen, facies, and secular controls on the appearance of Cryogenian and Ediacaran body and trace fossils in the Mackenzie Mountains of northwestern Canada

(2015) Erik A. Sperling et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

The survival of benthic macroscopic phototrophs on a Neoproterozoic snowball Earth

(2015) Qin Ye et al.   GEOLOGY

A Cryogenian chronology: Two long-lasting synchronous Neoproterozoic glaciations

(2015) Alan D. Rooney et al.   GEOLOGY

Statistical analysis of iron geochemical data suggests limited late Proterozoic oxygenation

(2015) Erik A. Sperling et al.   NATURE

Orbitally forced ice sheet fluctuations during the Marinoan Snowball Earth glaciation

(2015) Douglas I. Benn et al.   Nature Geoscience

The Cryogenian Balcanoona reef complexes of the Northern Flinders Ranges: Implications for Neoproterozoic ocean chemistry

(2015) Malcolm W. Wallace et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

FOSSILS OF PUTATIVE MARINE ALGAE FROM THE CRYOGENIAN GLACIAL INTERLUDE OF MONGOLIA

(2015) P. A. COHEN et al.   PALAIOS

Global synchronous initiation of the 2nd episode of Sturtian glaciation: SIMS zircon U–Pb and O isotope evidence from the Jiangkou Group, South China

(2015) Zhongwu Lan et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Extreme ocean anoxia during the Late Cryogenian recorded in reefal carbonates of Southern Australia

(2015) Ashleigh van Smeerdijk Hood et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Sedimentary and tectonic history of the Holowilena Ironstone, a Neoproterozoic iron formation in South Australia

(2015) Maxwell Alexander Lechte et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Selenium isotope evidence for progressive oxidation of the Neoproterozoic biosphere

(2015) Philip A. E. Pogge von Strandmann et al.   Nature Communications

Assessing the utility of Fe/Al and Fe-speciation to record water column redox conditions in carbonate-rich sediments

(2014) M.O. Clarkson et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Ocean redox structure across the Late Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event: A nitrogen isotope perspective

(2014) Magali Ader et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Organic-walled microfossil assemblages from glacial and interglacial Neoproterozoic units of Australia and Svalbard

(2014) Leigh Anne Riedman et al.   GEOLOGY

The elements of marine life

(2014) Noah J. Planavsky   Nature Geoscience

A rapid and synchronous initiation of the wide spread Cryogenian glaciations

(2014) Zhongwu Lan et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

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

(2013) Francis A. Macdonald et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

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

Phosphorus sources for phosphatic Cambrian carbonates

(2013) J. R. Creveling et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

PRESERVATIONAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL VARIABILITY OF ASSEMBLAGES OF AGGLUTINATED EUKARYOTES IN CRYOGENIAN CAP CARBONATES OF NORTHERN NAMIBIA

(2013) L. A. DALTON et al.   PALAIOS

Microstructures in metasedimentary rocks from the Neoproterozoic Bonahaven Formation, Scotland: Microconcretions, impact spherules, or microfossils?

(2013) Ross P. Anderson et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Re-Os geochronology and coupled Os-Sr isotope constraints on the Sturtian snowball Earth

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

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

Evidence for a redox stratified Cryogenian marine basin, Datangpo Formation, South China

(2012) Chao Li et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Paleomagnetism of the late Cryogenian Nantuo Formation and paleogeographic implications for the South China Block

(2012) Shihong Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

Uncovering the Neoproterozoic carbon cycle

(2012) D. T. Johnston et al.   NATURE

Cryogenian glaciations on the southern tropical paleomargin of Laurentia (NE Svalbard and East Greenland), and a primary origin for the upper Russøya (Islay) carbon isotope excursion

(2012) Paul F. Hoffman et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The first animals: ca. 760-million-year-old sponge-like fossils from Namibia

(2012) C. K. ‘Bob’ Brain et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Analysis of marine environmental conditions based onmolybdenum–uranium covariation—Applications to Mesozoic paleoceanography

(2011) N. Tribovillard et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Agglutinated tests in post-Sturtian cap carbonates of Namibia and Mongolia

(2011) T. Bosak et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

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

Putative Cryogenian ciliates from Mongolia

(2011) T. Bosak et al.   GEOLOGY

Possible early foraminiferans in post-Sturtian (716−635 Ma) cap carbonates

(2011) Tanja Bosak et al.   GEOLOGY

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

(2011) Hong-Fei Ling et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Reconstruction of paleo-redox conditions and early sulfur cycling during deposition of the Cryogenian Datangpo Formation in South China

(2010) Lian-Jun Feng et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

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

Cryogenian Glaciation and the Onset of Carbon-Isotope Decoupling

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

Environmental analysis of paleoceanographic systems based on molybdenum–uranium covariation

(2009) T.J. Algeo et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

A multilayered water column in the Ediacaran Yangtze platform? Insights from carbonate and organic matter paired δ13C

(2009) M. Ader et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A composite C-isotope profile for the Neoproterozoic Dalradian Supergroup of Scotland and Ireland

(2009) A.R. Prave et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

Turbidite depositional influences on the diagenesis of Beecher's Trilobite Bed and the Hunsruck Slate; sites of soft tissue pyritization

(2008) R. Raiswell et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

The snowball Earth aftermath: Exploring the limits of continental weathering processes

(2008) Guillaume Le Hir et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Neoproterozoic glaciation on a carbonate platform margin in Arctic Alaska and the origin of the North Slope subterrane

(2008) Francis A. Macdonald et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Tracing the stepwise oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean

(2008) C. Scott et al.   NATURE

Facies-dependent δ13C variation from a Cryogenian platform margin, South Australia: Evidence for stratified Neoproterozoic oceans?

(2008) Jonathan A. Giddings et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Ferruginous Conditions Dominated Later Neoproterozoic Deep-Water Chemistry

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