Oxidation of the Ediacaran Ocean

By D. Fike, John P. Grotzinger, L. M. Pratt, R. Summons. Nature, 2006

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, Paleontology

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2. R. Summons
3. J. Zumberge
4. J. Waldbauer
5. G. Shields-Zhou
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7. Davide Pisani
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1. Andrew H. Knoll
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6. J. Zumberge
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8. Anthony J. Richardson

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• The Multiple Origins of Complex Multicellularity (2011, background): “Data from sulfur isotopes also support the hypothesis that atmospheric oxygen levels increased 580– 560 Ma (Canfield & Teske 1996, Fike et al. 2006), and more recently, the abundance (Scott et al. 2008) and isotopic composition (Dahl et al. 2010) of molybdenum have been employed as proxies for…”
• Late Ediacaran redox stability and metazoan evolution (2012, methodology): “…a δ34S of seawater sulfate between 20‰ and 30‰, similar to estimates from early Ediacaran successions in Oman, Namibia, South China and Australia (Fike et al., 2006; Halverson and Hurtgen, 2007; Johnston et al., Ediacaran Redox Stability 18 Hurtgen et al., 2002; Hurtgen et al., 2006; McFadden…”
• Mechanisms of Microbial Carbon Sequestration in the Ocean - Future Research Directions (2014, background): “It is likely that the great glaciations set up a lateral gradient of oxidants in the postglacial oceans (Li et al., 2010), which not only favored an intensive anaerobic MCP in shallow subsurface waters, but also created an extremely reduced deep ocean for storage of the resulting RDOC; these favorab”
• Remarkable insights into the paleoecology of the Avalonian Ediacaran macrobiota (2015, neutral): “…and Van Kranendonk et al. (2008) foundland are published with isochrons. is inferred to have triggered the oxidation of the deep oceans (e.g. Fike et al., 2006; Canfield et al., 2007; McFadden et al., 2008; Scott et al., 2008; though see Lenton et al., 2014), broadly coincident with a shift…”
• Poriferan paraphyly and its implications for Precambrian palaeobiology (2007, background): “The Shuram negative carbon isotope excursion, preserved in mid-Ediacaran strata in Oman, shows a d13Ccarb shift on the order of .15 0/00 to values of 2120/00 (Le Guerroue et al. 2006b; Fike et al. 2006).”
• The late Precambrian greening of the Earth (2009, background): “These include complete oxidation of all organic matter in the ocean 2 and complete productivity collapse such that low-13 C/ 12 C hydrothermal CO 2 becomes the main input of carbon 4 .”
• The Geological Succession of Primary Producers in the Oceans (2007, background): “Nonetheless, sterane abundances in rocks of this age appear to be low independent of maturity level and do not approach Phanerozoic abundances until the Neoproterozoic Era.”