Isotopic evidence for microbial sulphate reduction in the early Archaean era

By Yanan Shen, R. Buick, D. Canfield. Nature, 2001

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Environmental Chemistry, Paleontology

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• A reconstruction of Archean biological diversity based on molecular fossils from the 2.78 to 2.45 billion-year-old Mount Bruce Supergroup, Hamersley Basin, Western Australia (2003, background): “Sedimentary organic matter strongly depleted in the carbon isotope (13)C implies the pres ence of archaeal methanogens and bacterial methanotrophs (Hayes, 1983), fractionated sulfide isotopes in sulfate crystals suggest the existence of mesophilic bacterial sulfate-reducers (Shen et al., 2001), and ”
• Estimated Minimal Divergence Times of the Major Bacterial and Archaeal Phyla (2003, background): “Although a recent report (Shen et al. 2001) indicated evidence for sulfate reduction at 3.47 Ga, what was actually measured was sulfide production in these samples.”
• Sulfate reducing bacteria in microbial mats: Changing paradigms, new discoveries (2006, unknown): “and cyanobacteria (Shen et al., 2001; Shen and Buick, 2004).”
• An Anaerobic World in Sponges (2005, background): “SRB are old organisms on earth (Shen et al. 2001) and were likely dominant players in the Proterozoic ocean.”
• The antiquity of microbial sulfate reduction (2004, background): “The recent findings of abundant detrital pyrite and siderite in Archean fluvial siliciclastic sediments (ca. 3250–2750 Ma) from the Pilbara Craton in Australia provide even clearer evidence that the Archean atmosphere was much less oxygenated than at present (Rasmussen and Buick, 1999).”
• Biological activity and the Earth's surface evolution: Insights from carbon, sulfur, nitrogen and iron stable isotopes in the rock record (2009, background): “1) and interpreted as a biological signature in spite of the fact that they belong to a hydrothermal system [89,104] (see § 5.”
• Questioning the evidence for Earth's oldest fossils (2002, background): “1 ) from combined sulphide–sulphate microsamples in these stratiform cherts are close to those obtained from broadly coeval sulphides and barite at the nearby North Pole, where sulphate growth resulted either from the hydrothermal alteration of evaporitic gypsum and anhydrit”