Search Results - "Stueeken, Eva E."
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A test of the nitrogen-limitation hypothesis for retarded eukaryote radiation: Nitrogen isotopes across a Mesoproterozoic basinal profile
Published in Geochimica et cosmochimica acta (01-11-2013)“…Nitrogen limitation caused by trace metal scarcity under euxinic ocean conditions has been proposed as an explanation for the delayed radiation of eukaryotes…”
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Contributions to late Archaean sulphur cycling by life on land
Published in Nature geoscience (01-10-2012)“…Life on land dates back at least 2.7 billion years, but the effects of this early terrestrial biosphere on biogeochemical cycling are poorly constrained…”
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Tracking the rise of eukaryotes to ecological dominance with zinc isotopes
Published in Geobiology (01-07-2018)“…The biogeochemical cycling of zinc (Zn) is intimately coupled with organic carbon in the ocean. Based on an extensive new sedimentary Zn isotope record across…”
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Selenium isotope ratios, redox changes and biological productivity across the end-Permian mass extinction
Published in Chemical geology (02-09-2015)“…The causes of the greatest mass extinction in Earth's history, in the latest Permian, remain actively debated. Here we use Se isotopes and abundances in marine…”
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The evolution of Earth's biogeochemical nitrogen cycle
Published in Earth-science reviews (01-09-2016)“…Nitrogen is an essential nutrient for all life on Earth and it acts as a major control on biological productivity in the modern ocean. Accurate reconstructions…”
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Pervasive aerobic nitrogen cycling in the surface ocean across the Paleoproterozoic Era
Published in Earth and planetary science letters (15-10-2018)“…Nitrogen isotope ratios in marine sedimentary rocks have become a widely used biogeochemical proxy that records information about nutrient cycling and redox…”
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Environmental control on microbial diversification and methane production in the Mesoarchean
Published in Precambrian research (01-01-2018)“…•The Lalla Rookh Sandstone records microbial life in lakes back to 3.0 Ga.•Nitrogen isotopes point to biological N2 fixation in an anoxic setting.•Organic δ13C…”
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Evaluating the biosignature potential of nitrogen concentrations in graphite and associated K-silicates
Published in Chemical geology (05-02-2023)“…The oldest remnants of life on Earth from various localities in the Isua supracrustal belt in Greenland date back to >3.7 billion years ago (Ga). They are in…”
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Sedimentary exhalative venting of bioavailable nitrogen into the early ocean
Published in Earth and planetary science letters (01-07-2021)“…Ore deposits found in Proterozoic marine sedimentary basins supply much of the world's zinc. Many of the deposits formed contemporaneously with their host…”
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Isotopic evidence for biological nitrogen fixation by molybdenum-nitrogenase from 3.2 Gyr
Published in Nature (London) (30-04-2015)“…Nitrogen isotope ratios from rocks between 3.2 and 2.75 billion years old are most readily explained by biological nitrogen fixation, most probably using the…”
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Unsynchronized evolution of salinity and pH of a Permian alkaline lake influenced by hydrothermal fluids: A multi-proxy geochemical study
Published in Chemical geology (20-05-2020)“…Hyperalkaline waters display unusually high productivity, which makes them prime targets in the search for life elsewhere in the solar system. However, the…”
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Limitation of fixed nitrogen and deepening of the carbonate-compensation depth through the Hirnantian at Dob's Linn, Scotland
Published in Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology (15-11-2019)“…The late Ordovician is characterized by dramatic changes in global climate concurrent with a major mass extinction and possible changes in ocean redox. To…”
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Basinal hydrographic and redox controls on selenium enrichment and isotopic composition in Paleozoic black shales
Published in Geochimica et cosmochimica acta (15-10-2020)“…Mass-dependent variations in selenium stable isotope ratios have recently been developed as a paleo-redox proxy. Since the reduction of selenium oxyanions…”
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Effects of pH on redox proxies in a Jurassic rift lake: Implications for interpreting environmental records in deep time
Published in Geochimica et cosmochimica acta (01-05-2019)“…It is widely agreed that the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans have undergone major redox changes over the last 2.5 billion years. However, the magnitude of these…”
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Spatial and temporal trends in Precambrian nitrogen cycling: A Mesoproterozoic offshore nitrate minimum
Published in Geochimica et cosmochimica acta (01-02-2017)“…Fixed nitrogen is an essential nutrient for eukaryotes. As N2 fixation and assimilation of nitrate are catalyzed by metalloenzymes, it has been hypothesized…”
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Coupled evolution of nitrogen cycling and redoxcline dynamics on the Yangtze Block across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition
Published in Geochimica et cosmochimica acta (15-07-2019)“…The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition is characterized by the evolution of complex eukaryotes and rapid diversification of metazoans. However, linkages between…”
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Selenium isotopes record extensive marine suboxia during the Great Oxidation Event
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (31-01-2017)“…It has been proposed that an “oxygen overshoot” occurred during the early Paleoproterozoic Great Oxidation Event (GOE) in association with the extreme positive…”
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Geochemical fingerprints of seawater in the Late Mesoproterozoic Midcontinent Rift, North America: Life at the marine-land divide
Published in Chemical geology (20-10-2020)“…The 1.1 Ga Midcontinent Rift (MCR) is a thick volcanic-sedimentary succession that forms a curvilinear belt through central North America and crops out along…”
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Equilibrium partitioning and isotopic fractionation of nitrogen between biotite, plagioclase, and K-feldspar during magmatic differentiation
Published in Geochimica et cosmochimica acta (01-09-2023)“…A significant portion of the continental crust is composed of plutonic igneous rocks. However, little is known about the geochemical behaviour of N between the…”
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