Biogeodynamics: bridging the gap between surface and deep Earth processes

Nitrogen evolution within the Earth's atmosphere–mantle system assessed by recycling in subduction zones

(2018) Ananya Mallik et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

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

Nitrogen solubility in the deep mantle and the origin of Earth's primordial nitrogen budget

(2018) Takahiro Yoshioka et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Rapid crustal growth and efficient crustal recycling in the early Earth: Implications for Hadean and Archean geodynamics

(2018) Juan Carlos Rosas et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Evolution of atmospheric xenon and other noble gases inferred from Archean to Paleoproterozoic rocks

(2018) G. Avice et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Convergent evidence for widespread rock nitrogen sources in Earth’s surface environment

(2018) B. Z. Houlton et al.   SCIENCE

A record of deep-ocean dissolved O2 from the oxidation state of iron in submarine basalts

(2018) Daniel A. Stolper et al.   NATURE

Microbial acceleration of aerobic pyrite oxidation at circumneutral pH

(2017) E. Percak-Dennett et al.   Geobiology

The relationship between mantle pH and the deep nitrogen cycle

(2017) Sami Mikhail et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Early phosphorus redigested

(2017) Simon W. Poulton   Nature Geoscience

Continental growth seen through the sedimentary record

(2017) Bruno Dhuime et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Biomass recycling and Earth’s early phosphorus cycle

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

Modeling pN2 through Geological Time: Implications for Planetary Climates and Atmospheric Biosignatures

(2016) E.E. Stüeken et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Vivianite is a key sink for phosphorus in sediments of the Landsort Deep, an intermittently anoxic deep basin in the Baltic Sea

(2016) Nikki Dijkstra et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Continental flood basalt weathering as a trigger for Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth

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

Compositional evolution of the upper continental crust through time, as constrained by ancient glacial diamictites

(2016) Richard M. Gaschnig et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Ancient air caught by shooting stars

(2016) Kevin Zahnle et al.   NATURE

The physiology and habitat of the last universal common ancestor

(2016) Madeline C. Weiss et al.   Nature Microbiology

Using raindrops to constrain past atmospheric density

(2015) Lucas Kavanagh et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The nitrogen budget of Earth

(2015) Ben Johnson et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

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

(2015) Forrest Horton   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Iron oxides, divalent cations, silica, and the early earth phosphorus crisis

(2015) C. Jones et al.   GEOLOGY

Causes and consequences of mid-Proterozoic anoxia

(2015) Louis A. Derry   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Isotopic evidence for biological nitrogen fixation by molybdenum-nitrogenase from 3.2 Gyr

(2015) Eva E. Stüeken et al.   NATURE

Changing tectonic controls on the long-term carbon cycle from Mesozoic to present

(2014) Benjamin Mills et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Nitrogen speciation in mantle and crustal fluids

(2014) Yuan Li et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Earth’s middle age

(2014) Peter A. Cawood et al.   GEOLOGY

Nitrogen speciation in upper mantle fluids and the origin of Earth's nitrogen-rich atmosphere

(2014) Sami Mikhail et al.   Nature Geoscience

High phosphate availability as a possible cause for massive cyanobacterial production of oxygen in the Paleoproterozoic atmosphere

(2013) Dominic Papineau et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Nitrogen Isotopes and Mantle Geodynamics: The Emergence of Life and the Atmosphere-Crust-Mantle Connection

(2013) P. Cartigny et al.   Elements

A Zn isotope perspective on the rise of continents

(2013) M.-L. Pons et al.   Geobiology

Iron and manganese shuttles control the formation of authigenic phosphorus minerals in the euxinic basins of the Baltic Sea

(2013) Tom Jilbert et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Nitrogen Isotopic Composition and Density of the Archean Atmosphere

(2013) Bernard Marty et al.   SCIENCE

New insights into the evolutionary history of biological nitrogen fixation

(2013) Eric S. Boyd et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The continental record and the generation of continental crust

(2012) P.A. Cawood et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Nitrogen recycling in subducted mantle rocks and implications for the global nitrogen cycle

(2012) Ralf Halama et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Air density 2.7 billion years ago limited to less than twice modern levels by fossil raindrop imprints

(2012) Sanjoy M. Som et al.   NATURE

Oxygen overshoot and recovery during the early Paleoproterozoic

(2011) A. Bekker 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

Nitrogen isotopes in ophiolitic metagabbros: A re-evaluation of modern nitrogen fluxes in subduction zones and implication for the early Earth atmosphere

(2011) Vincent Busigny et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

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

(2011) Kurt O. Konhauser et al.   NATURE

Contrasting lithium and magnesium isotope fractionation during continental weathering

(2010) Fang-Zhen Teng et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

A new particulate Mn–Fe–P-shuttle at the redoxcline of anoxic basins

(2010) Olaf Dellwig et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

The evolution of the marine phosphate reservoir

(2010) Noah J. Planavsky et al.   NATURE

Nitrogen-enhanced greenhouse warming on early Earth

(2009) Colin Goldblatt et al.   Nature Geoscience

Redox sensitivity of P cycling during marine black shale formation: Dynamics of sulfidic and anoxic, non-sulfidic bottom waters

(2008) C. März et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

The Paleoproterozoic Marathon Large Igneous Province: New evidence for a 2.1Ga long-lived mantle plume event along the southern margin of the North American Superior Province

(2007) Henry C. Halls et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH