Search Results - "Lalonde, Stefan"
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Benthic perspective on Earth’s oldest evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (27-01-2015)“…The Great Oxidation Event (GOE) is currently viewed as a protracted process during which atmospheric oxygen increased above ∼10 ⁻⁵ times the present…”
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Geochemistry of carbonate microbialites through time and space: Insights from the microbialite collection of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), France
Published in Chemical geology (05-09-2024)“…Microbialites are microbial sedimentary structures that constitute some of the oldest traces of life on Earth. By their deposition in a wide range of…”
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Proterozoic ocean redox and biogeochemical stasis
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (02-04-2013)“…The partial pressure of oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere has increased dramatically through time, and this increase is thought to have occurred in two rapid steps…”
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Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event
Published in Nature geoscience (01-04-2014)“…The evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis should have occurred some time before the oxidation of Earth’s atmosphere 2.5 billion years ago. The molybdenum…”
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Microbial life and biogeochemical cycling on land 3,220 million years ago
Published in Nature geoscience (01-09-2018)“…The colonization of emergent continental landmass by microbial life was an evolutionary step of paramount importance in Earth history. Here we report direct…”
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Globally asynchronous sulphur isotope signals require re-definition of the Great Oxidation Event
Published in Nature communications (08-06-2018)“…The Great Oxidation Event (GOE) has been defined as the time interval when sufficient atmospheric oxygen accumulated to prevent the generation and preservation…”
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Aerobic bacterial pyrite oxidation and acid rock drainage during the Great Oxidation Event
Published in Nature (London) (20-10-2011)“…Metal-respiring bacteria as atmospheric oxidation agents Free oxygen appeared in Earth's atmosphere for the first time around 2.5 billion years ago, in what is…”
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Localized geochemical variability produced by depositional and diagenetic processes in a 2.8 Ga Ca-carbonate system: A cautionary paradigm
Published in Precambrian research (15-08-2024)“…•This work explores the roles of depositional and diagenetic processes that operated on an Archean carbonate platform.•Micro-analytical techniques (scanning…”
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Palaeoproterozoic oxygenated oceans following the Lomagundi–Jatuli Event
Published in Nature geoscience (01-04-2020)“…The approximately 2,220–2,060 million years old Lomagundi–Jatuli Event was the longest positive carbon isotope excursion in Earth history and is traditionally…”
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Oceanic nickel depletion and a methanogen famine before the Great Oxidation Event
Published in Nature (09-04-2009)“…Whys after the Event The Great Oxidation Event (GOE), an era on Earth about 2.4 billion years ago when oxygen began to accumulate in the atmosphere, is widely…”
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Iron from continental weathering dictated soft‐part preservation during the Early Ordovician
Published in Terra nova (Oxford, England) (01-06-2022)“…The Fezouata Shale in Morocco is the most diverse Lower Ordovician unit yielding soft‐tissue preservation. Iron played a crucial role in the preservation of…”
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Cu isotopes in marine black shales record the Great Oxidation Event
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (03-05-2016)“…The oxygenation of the atmosphere ∼2.45–2.32 billion years ago (Ga) is one of the most significant geological events to have affected Earth’s redox history…”
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The evolution of the marine phosphate reservoir
Published in Nature (London) (28-10-2010)“…Phosphorus is a biolimiting nutrient that has an important role in regulating the burial of organic matter and the redox state of the ocean-atmosphere system…”
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Hydrogeological constraints on the formation of Palaeoproterozoic banded iron formations
Published in Nature geoscience (01-07-2019)“…Banded iron formations are critical to track changes in Archaean to Palaeoproterozoic ocean chemistry, with deposition triggered by water column iron…”
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Cobalt and marine redox evolution
Published in Earth and planetary science letters (15-03-2014)“…Cobalt (Co) is a bio-essential trace element and limiting nutrient in some regions of the modern oceans. It has been proposed that Co was more abundant in…”
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Variable Ni isotope fractionation between Fe-oxyhydroxides and implications for the use of Ni isotopes as geochemical tracers
Published in Chemical geology (20-03-2018)“…Nickel (Ni) isotopes have recently emerged as a new biogeochemical tracer in marine environments, but our understanding of the mechanisms of Ni isotope…”
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The Joffre banded iron formation, Hamersley Group, Western Australia: Assessing the palaeoenvironment through detailed petrology and chemostratigraphy
Published in Precambrian research (01-02-2016)“…•We present petrology and geochemistry of the largest single known banded iron formation in the world.•Dominant rock types are oxide BIF,…”
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Possible evolution of mobile animals in association with microbial mats
Published in Nature geoscience (01-06-2011)“…The evolution of marine complex animals about 635 million years ago took place in relatively low-oxygen waters. An analysis of a low-oxygen, hypersaline lagoon…”
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The Archean Nickel Famine Revisited
Published in Astrobiology (01-10-2015)“…Iron formations (IF) preserve a history of Precambrian oceanic elemental abundance that can be exploited to examine nutrient limitations on early biological…”
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A Mesoarchean shift in uranium isotope systematics
Published in Geochimica et cosmochimica acta (01-10-2018)“…Oxygenic photosynthesis fundamentally transformed all major biogeochemical cycles and increased the size and complexity of Earth's biosphere. However, there is…”
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