Primary aragonite and high-Mg calcite in the late Cambrian (Furongian). Potential evidence from marine carbonates in Oman

RESEARCH FOCUS: Fuzzy seas

(2015) Wolfgang Kiessling   GEOLOGY

Aragonite-calcite seas—Quantifying the gray area

(2015) Uwe Balthasar et al.   GEOLOGY

Oxygen-isotope trends and seawater temperature changes across the Late Cambrian Steptoean positive carbon-isotope excursion (SPICE event)

(2011) Maya Elrick et al.   GEOLOGY

The role of SO4 in the switch from calcite to aragonite seas

(2011) P. Bots et al.   GEOLOGY

Influences of alkalinity and pCO2 on CaCO3 nucleation from estimated Cretaceous composition seawater representative of “calcite seas”

(2010) Janie Lee et al.   GEOLOGY

Increased Production of Calcite and Slower Growth for the Major Sediment-Producing Alga Halimeda as the Mg/Ca Ratio of Seawater is Lowered to a "Calcite Sea" Level

(2010) S. M. Stanley et al.   JOURNAL OF SEDIMENTARY RESEARCH

Geochemical evidence for widespread euxinia in the Later Cambrian ocean

(2010) Benjamin C. Gill et al.   NATURE

Effects of secular variation in seawater Mg/Ca ratio (calcite-aragonite seas) on CaCO3sediment production by the calcareous algaeHalimeda,PenicillusandUdotea- evidence from recent experiments and the geological record

(2009) Justin Baker Ries   TERRA NOVA

Eve of biomineralization: Controls on skeletal mineralogy

(2008) Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev et al.   GEOLOGY