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2D/3D Microanalysis by Energy Dispersive X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Tomography.

scientific article

A Mesoarchean shift in uranium isotope systematics

scholarly article

A SURROGATE APPROACH TO STUDYING THE CHEMICAL REACTIVITY OF BURROW MUCOUS LININGS IN MARINE SEDIMENTS

scientific article published in 2011

A case study for late Archean and Proterozoic biogeochemical iron- and sulphur cycling in a modern habitat-the Arvadi Spring

scientific article published on 09 June 2018

A comparison of bulk versus laser ablation trace element analyses in banded iron formations: Insights into the mechanisms leading to compositional variability

scholarly article

A craton-wide geochemical survey of late Archean banded iron formations in China

scientific article published in September 2024

A distinct manganese deposit on a Middle Permian carbonate platform in South China

scientific article published in September 2024

A new salinity-based model for Cryogenian Mn-carbonate deposits

scholarly article

A review of microbial‐environmental interactions recorded in Proterozoic carbonate‐hosted chert

scientific article published on 21 October 2022

A sedimentary record of the evolution of the global marine phosphorus cycle

scientific article published on 5 December 2022

Acid-base properties of kaolinite, montmorillonite and illite at marine ionic strength

scholarly article

Acid–base properties of cyanobacterial surfaces. I: Influences of growth phase and nitrogen metabolism on cell surface reactivity

scholarly article

Acid–base properties of cyanobacterial surfaces. II: Silica as a chemical stressor influencing cell surface reactivity

scholarly article

Adsorption of biologically critical trace elements to the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002: Implications for marine trace metal cycling

scholarly article

Aerobic bacterial pyrite oxidation and acid rock drainage during the Great Oxidation Event

scientific article published on 19 October 2011

Algal-silica cycling and pigment diagenesis in recent alpine lake sediments: mechanisms and paleoecological implications

scholarly article

Alternating Si and Fe deposition caused by temperature fluctuations in Precambrian oceans

article published in 2008

An abiotic source of Archean hydrogen peroxide and oxygen that pre-dates oxygenic photosynthesis

scientific article published on 16 November 2021

Ancient graphite in the Eoarchean quartz-pyroxene rocks from Akilia in southern West Greenland II: Isotopic and chemical compositions and comparison with Paleoproterozoic banded iron formations

article

Application of surface complexation modeling to trace metals uptake by biochar-amended agricultural soils

Archean to Paleoproterozoic seawater halogen ratios recorded by fluid inclusions in chert and hydrothermal quartz

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 105 no. 9, September 2020

Are Animal Burrows a Major Sedimentary Sink for Metals?

Assessing the Importance of Organic Matrix Materials in Biofilm Chemical Reactivity: Insights from Proton and Cadmium Adsorption onto the Commercially Available Biopolymer Alginate

Astronomically forcing salinity variations in a marginal-marine environment, Bohai Bay Basin, NE China

scholarly article published in October 2024

Atmospheric hydrogen peroxide and Eoarchean iron formations

article

Authigenesis of biomorphic apatite particles from Benguela upwelling zone sediments off Namibia: The role of organic matter in sedimentary apatite nucleation and growth

scientific article published on 30 July 2018

Authigenic iron oxide proxies for marine zinc over geological time and implications for eukaryotic metallome evolution

scientific article published on 22 April 2013

Authigenic mineralization and detrital clay binding by freshwater biofilms: The Brahmani river, India

article by Kurt O. Konhauser et al published July 1998 in Geomicrobiology Journal

Author Correction: Microbially induced potassium enrichment in Paleoproterozoic shales and implications for reverse weathering on early Earth

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Bacterial biomineralization: where to from here?

scientific article published on 21 April 2008

Bacterial clay authigenesis: a common biogeochemical process

scholarly article

Bacterial iron biomineralisation in nature

scholarly article by Kurt O. Konhauser published July 1997 in FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Banded Iron Formations

Benefits of bacterial biomineralization.

scientific article published on June 2008

Benthic perspective on Earth's oldest evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis

scientific article

Bilaterian burrows and grazing behavior at >585 million years ago.

scientific article published in June 2012

Binding and transport of Cr(III) by clay minerals during the Great Oxidation Event

scientific article published in April 2022

Bioavailability of zinc in marine systems through time

article by Clint Scott et al published 23 December 2012 in Nature Geoscience

Biogenically enhanced permeability: A petrographic analysis of Macaronichnus segregatus in the Lower Cretaceous Bluesky Formation, Alberta, Canada

article

Biogeochemical Behavior of Metals Along Two Permeable Reactive Barriers in a Mining‐Affected Wetland

scientific article published in 2019

Biogeochemical Cycling of Metals in Freshwater Algae from Manaus and Carajás, Brazil

article

Biogeochemical reappraisal of the freshwater–seawater mixing‐zone diagenetic model

scientific article published on 7 April 2021

Biogeochemistry of U, Ni, and As in two meromictic pit lakes at the Cluff Lake uranium mine, northern Saskatchewan

article

Biological carbon precursor to diagenetic siderite with spherical structures in iron formations

scientific article

Black shale deposition and early diagenetic dolomite cementation during Oceanic Anoxic Event 1: The mid-Cretaceous Maracaibo Platform, northwestern South America

Can Mn–S redox cycling drive sedimentary dolomite formation? A hypothesis

scholarly article

Cell surface acid-base properties of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus : Influences of nitrogen source, growth phase and N:P ratios

scholarly article

Cell surface characterization and trace metal adsorptive properties of anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) consortia

scientific article published on 06 January 2019

Cell surface reactivity of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002: Implications for metal sorption from seawater

scholarly article

Change of the point of zero net proton charge (pHPZNPC) of clay minerals with ionic strength

scholarly article

Characterization and implications of solids associated with hydraulic fracturing flowback and produced water from the Duvernay Formation, Alberta, Canada

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Characterization and implications of the cell surface reactivity of Calothrix sp. strain KC97.

scientific article published on October 2002

Chemical and textural overprinting of ancient stromatolites: Timing, processes, and implications for their use as paleoenvironmental proxies

Chemical reactivity of microbe and mineral surfaces in hydrous ferric oxide depositing hydrothermal springs

article

Chemical sedimentary protoliths in the >3.75Ga Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt (Québec, Canada)

article

Chemostratigraphic constraints on early Ediacaran carbonate ramp dynamics, Río de la Plata craton, Uruguay

article

Chromium evidence for protracted oxygenation during the Paleoproterozoic

scientific article published in April 2022

Chromium evidence for protracted oxygenation during the Paleoproterozoic

Clay Authigenesis, Bacterial

Clay minerals as a source of cadmium to estuaries

scientific article published on 26 June 2020

Clinoform identification and correlation in fine-grained sediments: A case study using the Triassic Montney Formation

article published in 2017

Cobalt and marine redox evolution

scholarly article

Colloidal transport mechanisms and sequestration of U, Ni, and As in meromictic mine pit lakes

scientific article published in November 2019

Competitive adsorption of heavy metals by anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) consortia

scientific article published on 06 June 2020

Correction to "Mechanism of Goethite Precipitation on Magnetite and Maghemite Nanoparticles Studied by Surface Complexation/Precipitation Modeling"

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Could bacteria have formed the Precambrian banded iron formations?

scientific article published in 2002

Cu isotopes in marine black shales record the Great Oxidation Event

scientific article

Cyanobacterial viability during hydrothermal biomineralisation

scholarly article

DIRECT Re-Os DATING OF MANGANESE CARBONATE ORES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FORMATION OF THE ORTOKARNASH MANGANESE DEPOSIT, NORTHWEST CHINA

scientific article published in January 2022

Deciphering formation processes of banded iron formations from the Transvaal and the Hamersley successions by combined Si and Fe isotope analysis using UV femtosecond laser ablation

article

Decoupled sources of the 2.3–2.2Ga Yuanjiacun banded iron formation: Implications for the Nd cycle in Earth’s early oceans

Decoupling photochemical Fe(II) oxidation from shallow-water BIF deposition

scientific article

Deepening the early oxygen debate

Degeneration of biogenic superparamagnetic magnetite

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Deposition of banded iron formations by anoxygenic phototrophic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacteria

article by Andreas Kappler et al published 2005 in Geology

Depositional Environment of the Paleoproterozoic Yuanjiacun Banded Iron Formation in Shanxi Province, China

article

Depositional and Environmental Constraints on the Late Neoarchean Dagushan Deposit (Anshan-Benxi Area, North China Craton): An Algoma-Type Banded Iron Formation

scientific article published in November 2021

Depositional evolution of an extinct sinter mound from source to outflow, El Tatio, Chile

scientific article published in 2020

Depositional system and hydrocarbon accumulation in Gubei slope zone, Zhanhua Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, eastern China

article

Depositional timing of Neoarchean turbidites of the Slave craton—recommended nomenclature and type localities

scholarly article

Desiccation cracks in siliciclastic deposits: Microbial mat-related compared to abiotic sedimentary origin

scholarly article

Determination of the Settling Rate of Clay/Cyanobacterial Floccules

scientific article published on 11 June 2018

Detrital chromites reveal Slave craton's missing komatiite

scholarly article

Digging deeper

Diopatra cupreaworm burrow parchment: a cautionary tale of infaunal surface reactivity

scientific article published in 2019

Discussion on ‘The Neoproterozoic glacial record in the Río de la Plata Craton: a critical reappraisal'

scientific article published in 2010

Distinct origins for Rovno and Baltic ambers: Evidence from carbon and hydrogen stable isotopes

article

Diversity of bacterial iron mineralization

Diversity of iron and silica precipitation by microbial mats in hydrothermal waters, Iceland: Implications for Precambrian iron formations

scholarly article by Kurt O. Konhauser & F. G. Ferris published 1996 in Geology

Dynamic controls on accretion and lithification of modern gypsum-dominated thrombolites, Los Roques, Venezuela

article published in 2012

Earth's youngest banded iron formation implies ferruginous conditions in the Early Cambrian ocean.

scientific article

Ecological engineering of iron ore tailings into useable soils for sustainable rehabilitation

scientific article published in 2023

Ediacaran in Uruguay: Facts and controversies

scientific article published in 2014

Ediacaran in Uruguay: palaeoclimatic and palaeobiological implications

scientific article

Editorial

Electron donor-driven bacterial and archaeal community patterns along forest ring edges in Ontario, Canada

article

Episodic ventilation of euxinic bottom waters triggers the formation of black shale-hosted Mn carbonate deposits

scientific article published in January 2023

Evaluation of siderite and magnetite formation in BIFs by pressure–temperature experiments of Fe(III) minerals and microbial biomass

scholarly article by Maximilian Halama et al published September 2016 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis half a billion years before the Great Oxidation Event

article

Evolution of the global phosphorus cycle

scientific article published on 21 December 2016

Experimental evidence supports early silica cementation of the Ediacara Biota

scientific article

Experimental low-grade alteration of biogenic magnetite indicates microbial involvement in generation of banded iron formations

scholarly article by Yi-Liang Li et al published January 2013 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Experimental simulation of evaporation-driven silica sinter formation and microbial silicification in hot spring systems

scientific article published on 5 February 2013

Experimental study of iron and silica immobilization by bacteria in mixed Fe-Si systems: implications for microbial silicification in hot springs

article

Field- and Lab-Based Potentiometric Titrations of Microbial Mats from the Fairmont Hot Spring, Canada

article

Formation of green rust and elemental sulfur in an analogue for oxygenated ferro-euxinic transition zones of Precambrian oceans

scientific article published on 18 January 2019

Genesis of large siliceous stromatolites at Frying Pan Lake, Waimangu geothermal field, North Island, New Zealand

article

Genesis of the Neoproterozoic-Early Cambrian banded iron ore-bearing sedimentary rocks in the Jiertieke-Zankan iron ore belt, West Kunlun Orogenic Belt, Xinjiang (NW China)

scientific article published in April 2019

Geobiology and Geomicrobiology

scientific article published in 2021

Geochemical proxies for biogeochemical cycling and ocean anoxia

Geochemistry of pyrite from diamictites of the Boolgeeda Iron Formation, Western Australia with implications for the GOE and Paleoproterozoic ice ages

scholarly article

Geology and geochemistry of the high-grade Zankan magnetite ore, Western Kunlun Mountains, NW China

scientific article published in November 2022

Global continental volcanism controlled the evolution of the oceanic nickel reservoir

scientific article

Global importance of oxic molybdenum sinks prior to 2.6 Ga revealed by the Mo isotope composition of Precambrian carbonates

article

Hematite-coated microfossils: primary ecological fingerprint or taphonomic oddity of the Paleoproterozoic?

scientific article published on 2 February 2015

Hot spring sinters: keys to understanding Earth's earliest life forms

article

How did the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis influence the temporal and spatial development of the microbial iron cycle on ancient Earth?

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

How does weathering influence geochemical proxies in Paleoproterozoic banded iron formations? A case study from outcrop samples of 2.46 Ga banded iron formation, Hamersley Basin, Western Australia

scientific article published on 6 November 2023

Hydrocarbon potential and biomarker assemblages of Paleogene source rocks in the Cangdong sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China

scholarly article

Hydrogeological constraints on the formation of Palaeoproterozoic banded iron formations

scientific article published on 27 May 2019

IRON IN MICROBIAL METABOLISMS

scientific article published in 2011

Ichnology

scholarly article from 2011

Impact of lake-level changes on the formation of thermogene travertine in continental rifts: Evidence from Lake Bogoria, Kenya Rift Valley

article

In situ silicification of an Icelandic hot spring microbial mat: implications for microfossil formation

article

Influence of organics and silica on Fe(II) oxidation rates and cell–mineral aggregate formation by the green-sulfur Fe(II)-oxidizing bacterium Chlorobium ferrooxidans KoFox – Implications for Fe(II) oxidation in ancient oceans

scholarly article

Influence of pyrolysis temperature on production of digested sludge biochar and its application for ammonium removal from municipal wastewater

scholarly article

Inhibition of photoferrotrophy by nitric oxide in ferruginous environments

Investigating the geochemical impact of burrowing animals: Proton and cadmium adsorption onto the mucus lining of Terebellid polychaete worms

scholarly article

Iron Formation: The Sedimentary Product of a Complex Interplay among Mantle, Tectonic, Oceanic, and Biospheric Processes

Iron Formation: The Sedimentary Product of a Complex Interplay among Mantle, Tectonic, Oceanic, and Biospheric Processes--A Reply

Iron Formations: Their Origins and Implications for Ancient Seawater Chemistry

scientific article published in 2014

Iron Isotopes Reveal a Benthic Iron Shuttle in the Palaeoproterozoic Zaonega Formation: Basinal Restriction, Euxinia, and the Effect on Global Palaeoredox Proxies

scientific article

Iron and Carbon Isotope Constraints on the Formation Pathway of Iron-Rich Carbonates within the Dagushan Iron Formation, North China Craton

scientific article published on 19 January 2021

Iron formations: A global record of Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic environmental history

scientific article

Iron in Earth Surface Systems: A Major Player in Chemical and Biological Processes

article by K. G. Taylor & Kurt O. Konhauser published 1 April 2011 in Elements

Iron phosphate precipitation by epilithic microbial biofilms in Arctic Canada

article

LINKING GEOMICROBIOLOGY WITH ICHNOLOGY IN MARINE SEDIMENTS

scientific article published in 2007

Large-scale fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric and oceanic oxygen levels from the record of U in shales

scholarly article

Las Ventanas and San Carlos formations, Maldonado Group, Uruguay

Limited Zn and Ni mobility during simulated iron formation diagenesis

scholarly article

Logan Medallist 8. Trace Elements in Iron Formation as a Window into Biogeochemical Evolution Accompanying the Oxygenation of Earth’s Atmosphere

scientific article published on 18 December 2023

Major ion and heavy metal chemistry of Pachin river (Itanagar) - levels and sources

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Measurements of bacterial mat metal binding capacity in alkaline and carbonate-rich systems

scholarly article

Mechanisms of the Removal of U(VI) from Aqueous Solution Using Biochar: A Combined Spectroscopic and Modeling Approach

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Mesophilic microorganisms build terrestrial mats analogous to Precambrian microbial jungles

scientific article published on 20 September 2019

Metal sorption and mineral precipitation by bacteria in two Amazonian river systems: Rio Solimões and Rio Negro, Brazil

scientific article published in 1993

Microbe-clay interactions as a mechanism for the preservation of organic matter and trace metal biosignatures in black shales

scholarly article

Microbial Silicification – Bacteria (or Passive)

article by Kurt O. Konhauser & Brian Jones published 2011 in Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences

Microbial Surface Reactivity

Microbial dissolution of hematite and associated cellular fossilization by reduced iron phases: a study of ancient microbe-mineral surface interactions

scientific article

Microbial processes during deposition and diagenesis of Banded Iron Formations

scientific article published in 2021

Microbial silicification in Iodine Pool, Waimangu geothermal area, North Island, New Zealand: implications for recognition and identification of ancient silicified microbes

article

Microbial-Metal Binding

Microbial-silica interactions in Icelandic hot spring sinter: possible analogues for some Precambrian siliceous stromatolites

article

Microbially catalyzed dolomite formation: From near-surface to burial

Microbially induced potassium enrichment in Paleoproterozoic shales and implications for reverse weathering on early Earth

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Microbiological processes in banded iron formation deposition

Microscale oxygen distribution in various invertebrate burrow walls

Migration and attenuation of agrochemical pollutants: insights from isotopic analysis of groundwater sulphate

article

Mineral ecophysiological data provide growing evidence for microbial activity in banded-iron formations

article

Mineral paragenesis in Paleozoic manganese ore deposits: Depositional versus post-depositional formation processes

scientific article published in May 2022

Mineral precipitation by epilithic biofilms in the speed river, ontario, Canada.

scientific article

Mineralogy of the 1.45 Ga Wafangzi manganese deposit in North China: Implications for pulsed Mesoproterozoic oxygenation events

scientific article published in April 2024

Modes of Biomineralization of Magnetite by Microbes

Modified sequential extraction for biochar and petroleum coke: Metal release potential and its environmental implications

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Modulation of oxygen production in Archaean oceans by episodes of Fe(II) toxicity

article

Multi-element chemistry of some Amazonian waters and soils

scholarly article

Neoarchaean banded iron formation within a ∼2620 Ma turbidite-dominated deep-water basin, Slave craton, NW Canada

article

Nickel partitioning in biogenic and abiogenic ferrihydrite: The influence of silica and implications for ancient environments

scholarly article by Merle Eickhoff et al published September 2014 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

No evidence for high atmospheric oxygen levels 1,400 million years ago

scientific article published on 10 May 2016

Nutrient recovery from source-diverted blackwater: Optimization for enhanced phosphorus recovery and reduced co-precipitation

scholarly article

Oceanic nickel depletion and a methanogen famine before the Great Oxidation Event

scientific article (publication date: 9 April 2009)

Organism motility in an oxygenated shallow-marine environment 2.1 billion years ago

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Palaeoproterozoic oxygenated oceans following the Lomagundi–Jatuli Event

scientific article published in 2020

Petrography and geochemistry of the Dales Gorge banded iron formation: Paragenetic sequence, source and implications for palaeo-ocean chemistry

scholarly article by E. Pecoits et al published July 2009 in Precambrian Research

Petrology and geochemistry of the Boolgeeda Iron Formation, Hamersley Basin, Western Australia

article

Petrology and geochemistry of the ∼2.9Ga Itilliarsuk banded iron formation and associated supracrustal rocks, West Greenland: Source characteristics and depositional environment

scholarly article by Rasmus Haugaard et al published May 2013 in Precambrian Research

Phosphate remobilization from banded iron formations during metamorphic mineral transformations

scientific article published in December 2021

Photoferrotrophy, deposition of banded iron formations, and methane production in Archean oceans

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Phytoplankton contributions to the trace-element composition of Precambrian banded iron formations

article

Point-counterpoint articles in geobiology

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Porosity and Permeability in Bioturbated Sediments

Possible evolution of mobile animals in association with microbial mats

article by Murray Gingras et al published 15 May 2011 in Nature Geoscience

Potential of asphalt concrete as a source of trace metals

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Potential role of nitrite for abiotic Fe(II) oxidation and cell encrustation during nitrate reduction by denitrifying bacteria

scientific article (publication date: February 2014)

Preface

Primary hematite in Neoarchean to Paleoproterozoic oceans

scholarly article

Probable Fungal Colonization and Carbonate Diagenesis of Neoproterozoic Stromatolites from South Gabon, Western Congo Basin

academic chapter

Prolific organic SiO2 precipitation in a solute-deficient river: Rio Negro, Brazil

article

Protection of Nitrate-Reducing Fe(II)-Oxidizing Bacteria from UV Radiation by Biogenic Fe(III) Minerals

scientific article

Protection of phototrophic iron(II)-oxidizing bacteria from UV irradiation by biogenic iron(III) minerals: Implications for early Archean banded iron formation

scholarly article

Proterozoic ocean redox and biogeochemical stasis

scientific article

Pulse of intense oxidative weathering during the latest Paleoproterozoic

scientific article published on 25 September 2024

Quartz nanocrystals in the 2.48 Ga Dales Gorge banded iron formation of Hamersley, Western Australia: Evidence for a change from submarine to subaerial volcanism at the end of the Archean

article

Rare Earth Element Adsorption to Clay Minerals: Mechanistic Insights and Implications for Recovery from Secondary Sources

scientific article published on 8 April 2024

Removal of organic acids from water using biochar and petroleum coke

scholarly article published November 2016

Reply to Comment by C. Gaucher et al. on "Chemostratigraphic constraints on early Ediacaran carbonate ramp dynamics, Río de la Plata craton, Uruguay" by Aubet et al. Gondwana Research (2012), Volume 22, Issues 3-4, November 2012, Pages 1073-1090

scientific article published in 2013

Resolving the fate of trace metals during microbial remineralization of phytoplankton biomass in precursor banded iron formation sediments

scientific article published in 2023

Response to comment on "Bilaterian burrows and grazing behavior at >585 million years ago".

scientific article published in February 2013

Reusable magnetite nanoparticles-biochar composites for the efficient removal of chromate from water

scientific article published on 04 November 2020

Role of Microorganisms in Banded Iron Formations

article published in 2010

Role of extracellular polymeric substances in the surface chemical reactivity of Hymenobacter aerophilus, a psychrotolerant bacterium.

scientific article published on 13 November 2009

STABLE ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS REVEALS EVIDENCE FOR GROUNDWATER-SEDIMENT-ANIMAL INTERACTIONS IN A MARGINAL-MARINE SETTING

article

Sabkha and Burrow-Mediated Dolomitization in the Mississippian Debolt Formation, Northwestern Alberta, Canada

article

Sediment Diagenesis – Biologically Controlled

Shedding light on manganese cycling in the early oceans

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

Simulating Precambrian banded iron formation diagenesis

scholarly article

Size, density and composition of cell–mineral aggregates formed during anoxygenic phototrophic Fe(II) oxidation: Impact on modern and ancient environments

article

Surface chemical reactivity and metal adsorptive properties of natural cyanobacterial mats from an alkaline hydrothermal spring, Yellowstone National Park

scholarly article

Surface reactivity of the anaerobic phototrophic Fe(II)-oxidizing bacterium Rhodovulum iodosum : Implications for trace metal budgets in ancient oceans and banded iron formations

scholarly article

TEXTURAL AND GEOCHEMICAL FEATURES OF FRESHWATER MICROBIALITES FROM LAGUNA BACALAR, QUINTANA ROO, MEXICO

scientific article published in 2014

Temperature fluctuations in the Archean ocean as trigger for varve-like deposition of iron and silica minerals in banded iron formations

scientific article published in November 2019

The Archean Nickel Famine Revisited

scientific article published in October 2015

The Crucial Relationship: Reinforcing the Role of Microbial Mats in Early Animal Life

scientific article published in 2023

The Formation and Preservation of Synechococcus elongatus Cell Molds in Simulated Silica Sinter: Implications for the Identification of Microfossils

The Global Iron Cycle

The Joffre banded iron formation, Hamersley Group, Western Australia: Assessing the palaeoenvironment through detailed petrology and chemostratigraphy

article

The composition of Earth's oldest iron formations: The Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt (Québec, Canada)

article

The dynamics of cyanobacterial silicification: an infrared micro-spectroscopic investigation

article

The effect of cyanobacteria on silica precipitation at neutral pH: implications for bacterial silicification in geothermal hot springs

scholarly article

The evolution of geomicrobiology: perspectives from the mineral?bacteria interface

The evolution of the marine phosphate reservoir

scientific article published in October 2010

The experimental silicification of Aquificales and their role in hot spring sinter formation

article

The formation of magnetite in the early Archean oceans

scholarly article by Yi-Liang Li et al published May 2017 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

The impact of ionic strength on the proton reactivity of clay minerals

scholarly article

The influence of invertebrate faecal material on compositional heterogeneity, diagenesis and trace metal distribution in the Ogeechee River estuary, Georgia, USA

The kaolinite shuttle links the Great Oxidation and Lomagundi events

The microbial role in hot spring silicification

scientific article

The nature of Mesoarchaean seawater and continental weathering in 2.85 Ga banded iron formation, Slave craton, NW Canada

article

The onset of continental weathering recorded in Archean banded iron formations

scientific article published on 12 December 2024

The potential significance of microbial Fe(III) reduction during deposition of Precambrian banded iron formations

The rise of oxygen-driven arsenic cycling at ca. 2.48 Ga

scientific article published on 29 January 2019

Thermodynamic Analysis of Nickel(II) and Zinc(II) Adsorption to Biochar

scientific article published on 21 May 2018

Timing the Evolution of Cyanobacterial Antioxidants: Superoxide Dismutases

scientific article published on 28 January 2021

Timing the evolution of antioxidant enzymes in cyanobacteria

scientific article published on 6 August 2021

Trace Metals

scholarly article published on 30 December 2019

Trace element chemistry of major rivers in Orissa State, India

article by Kurt O. Konhauser et al published 30 January 1997 in Environmental Geology

Trace element geochemistry of river sediment, Orissa State, India

scholarly article by Kurt O. Konhauser et al published June 1997 in Journal of Hydrology

Trace elements at the intersection of marine biological and geochemical evolution

Tracking the rise of eukaryotes to ecological dominance with zinc isotopes

scientific article published on 05 June 2018

U Pb detrital zircon ages from some Neoproterozoic successions of Uruguay: Provenance, stratigraphy and tectonic evolution

article published in 2016

UV radiation limited the expansion of cyanobacteria in early marine photic environments

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Unusual microbial mat-related structural diversity 2.1 billion years ago and implications for the Francevillian biota

article published in 2018

Uranium in iron formations and the rise of atmospheric oxygen

scholarly article

Using Ge/Si ratios to decouple iron and silica fluxes in Precambrian banded iron formations

scientific article published in 2003

Using Zn and Ni behavior during magnetite precipitation in banded iron formations to determine its biological or abiotic origin

scholarly article

Using modern ferruginous habitats to interpret Precambrian banded iron formation deposition

article published in 2015

WINTERING CHIRONOMIDS MINE OXYGEN

article

Was There Really an Archean Phosphate Crisis?

scientific article