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

Persistence of a freshwater surface ocean after a snowball Earth

(2017) Jun Yang et al.   GEOLOGY

Continental flood basalt weathering as a trigger for Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth

(2016) Grant M. Cox et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Oceanic oxygenation events in the anoxic Ediacaran ocean

(2016) S. K. Sahoo et al.   Geobiology

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

(2016) Judy P. Pu et al.   GEOLOGY

Evolution of the global phosphorus cycle

(2016) Christopher T. Reinhard et al.   NATURE

A statistical analysis of the carbon isotope record from the Archean to Phanerozoic and implications for the rise of oxygen

(2015) J. Krissansen-Totton et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Early sponges and toxic protists: possible sources of cryostane, an age diagnostic biomarker antedating Sturtian Snowball Earth

(2015) J. J. Brocks et al.   Geobiology

The survival of benthic macroscopic phototrophs on a Neoproterozoic snowball Earth

(2015) Qin Ye et al.   GEOLOGY

Causes and consequences of mid-Proterozoic anoxia

(2015) Louis A. Derry   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Proterozoic photosynthesis - a critical review

(2015) Nicholas J. Butterfield   PALAEONTOLOGY

The Proterozoic Record of Eukaryotes

(2015) Phoebe A. Cohen et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Reappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks

(2015) Katherine L. French et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rethinking the marine carbon cycle: Factoring in the multifarious lifestyles of microbes

(2015) A. Z. Worden et al.   SCIENCE

Selenium isotope evidence for progressive oxidation of the Neoproterozoic biosphere

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

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

(2014) Leigh Anne Riedman et al.   GEOLOGY

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

(2014) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

Evidence for ancient halophiles? Testing biomarker syngeneity of evaporites from Neoproterozoic and Cambrian strata

(2014) Richard Schinteie et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Regulation of atmospheric oxygen during the Proterozoic

(2013) Thomas A. Laakso et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Tailing of Chromatographic Peaks in GC-MS Caused by Interaction of Halogenated Solvents with the Ion Source

(2013) J. J. Brocks et al.   JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHIC SCIENCE

Micro-ablation, a new technique to remove drilling fluids and other contaminants from fragmented and fissile rock material

(2013) Amber J.M. Jarrett et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Identification of 24-n-propylidenecholesterol in a member of the Foraminifera

(2013) Jonathan Grabenstatter et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Lethally Hot Temperatures During the Early Triassic Greenhouse

(2012) Y. Sun et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2011) Jochen J. Brocks   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Timing of Neoproterozoic glaciations linked to transport-limited global weathering

(2011) Benjamin Mills et al.   Nature Geoscience

The evolution of the marine phosphate reservoir

(2010) Noah J. Planavsky et al.   NATURE

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

Sterols in red and green algae: quantification, phylogeny, and relevance for the interpretation of geologic steranes

(2008) R. B. KODNER et al.   Geobiology

Assessing biomarker syngeneity using branched alkanes with quaternary carbon (BAQCs) and other plastic contaminants

(2008) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Origin of petroleum in the Neoproterozoic–Cambrian South Oman Salt Basin

(2008) E. Grosjean et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY