Ferruginous conditions dominated later Neoproterozoic deep-water chemistry
Canfield, D.E.; Poulton, S.W.; Knoll, A.H.; Narbonne, G.M.; Ross, G.; Goldberg, T.; Strauss, H. (2008). Ferruginous conditions dominated later Neoproterozoic deep-water chemistry. Science (Wash.) 321(5891): 949-952
In: Science (Washington). American Association for the Advancement of Science: New York, N.Y. ISSN 0036-8075; e-ISSN 1095-9203, meer
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- Canfield, D.E.
- Poulton, S.W.
- Knoll, A.H.
- Narbonne, G.M.
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- Ross, G.
- Goldberg, T.
- Strauss, H.
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| Abstract |
Earth's surface chemical environment has evolved from an early anoxic condition to the oxic state we have today. Transitional between an earlier Proterozoic world with widespread deep-water anoxia and a Phanerozoic world with large oxygen-utilizing animals, the Neoproterozoic Era [1000 to 542 million years ago (Ma)] plays a key role in this history. The details of Neoproterozoic Earth surface oxygenation, however, remain unclear. We report that through much of the later Neoproterozoic (<742 ± 6 Ma), anoxia remained widespread beneath the mixed layer of the oceans; deeper water masses were sometimes sulfidic but were mainly Fe2+-enriched. These ferruginous conditions marked a return to ocean chemistry not seen for more than one billion years of Earth history |
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