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A 1.25 Ga depositional age for the “Paleoproterozoic” Mapedi red beds, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa: New constraints on the timing of oxidative weathering and hematite mineralization

scholarly article

A Mechanistic Model for Mud Flocculation in Freshwater Rivers

scientific article published in May 2022

A paired apatite and calcite clumped isotope thermometry approach to estimating Cambro-Ordovician seawater temperatures and isotopic composition

scientific article published in March 2018

A shorter Archean day-length biases interpretations of the early Earth's climate

article

Active Ooid Growth Driven By Sediment Transport in a High-Energy Shoal, Little Ambergris Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands

scholarly article

An astrobiological perspective on Meridiani Planum

Apatite nanoparticles in 3.46–2.46 Ga iron formations: Evidence for phosphorus-rich hydrothermal plumes on early Earth

scientific article

Bacterial diversification through geological time

article by Stilianos Louca et al published September 2018 in Nature Ecology and Evolution

Biogeochemistry: Life before the rise of oxygen

scientific article published in October 2008

Breathing Life into Oxygen

scientific article (publication date: 20 February 2014)

Breathing room for early animals

scientific article

Candidatus Anthektikosiphon siderophilum OHK22, a New Member of the Chloroflexi Family Herpetosiphonaceae from Oku-okuhachikurou Onsen

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Carbon isotopes and lipid biomarkers from organic-rich facies of the Shuram Formation, Sultanate of Oman

scientific article

Carbonate clumped isotope constraints on Silurian ocean temperature and seawater δ18O

scholarly article

Carbonates in the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001 formed at 18 +/- 4 degrees C in a near-surface aqueous environment

scientific article

Carbonate‐Associated Phosphate (CAP) Indicates Elevated Phosphate Availability in Neoarchean Shallow Marine Environments

scientific article published on 14 March 2022

Climate change and the selective signature of the Late Ordovician mass extinction

scientific article (publication date: May 2012)

Compositionally and density stratified igneous terrain in Jezero crater, Mars

scientific article published on 26 August 2022

Constraints on ocean carbonate chemistry and pCO2 in the Archaean and Palaeoproterozoic

scholarly article

Contrasting styles of water–rock interaction at the Mars Exploration Rover landing sites

scientific article published in February 2014

Convergent evolution of unusual complex I homologs with increased proton pumping capacity: energetic and ecological implications

scientific article published in 2018

Deep Trek: Mission Concepts for Exploring Subsurface Habitability & Life on Mars — A Window into Subsurface Life in the Solar System

scientific article published on 18 March 2021

Deep Trek: Science of Subsurface Habitability & Life on Mars

scientific article published on 18 March 2021

Deltaic deposits at Aeolis Dorsa: Sedimentary evidence for a standing body of water on the northern plains of Mars

article

Deposition of sulfate aerosols with positive Δ33S in the Neoarchean

Deposition, exhumation, and paleoclimate of an ancient lake deposit, Gale crater, Mars

scientific article

Did nutrient-rich oceans fuel Earth’s oxygenation?

scholarly article

Draft Genome Sequence of Ardenticatena maritima 110S, a Thermophilic Nitrate- and Iron-Reducing Member of the Chloroflexi Class Ardenticatenia

scientific article published on 19 November 2015

Draft Genome Sequence of Chloracidobacterium sp. CP2_5A, a Phototrophic Member of the Phylum Acidobacteria Recovered from a Japanese Hot Spring

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Draft Genome Sequence of Herpetosiphon geysericola GC-42, a Nonphototrophic Member of the Chloroflexi Class Chloroflexia

scientific article published on 19 November 2015

Draft Genome Sequence of Hydrogenibacillus schlegelii MA48, a Deep-Branching Member of the Bacilli Class of Firmicutes

scientific article (publication date: 19 January 2017)

Draft Genome Sequence of Leptolinea tardivitalis YMTK-2, a Mesophilic Anaerobe from the Chloroflexi Class Anaerolineae

scientific article published on 19 November 2015

Draft Genome Sequence of Levilinea saccharolytica KIBI-1, a Member of the Chloroflexi Class Anaerolineae

scientific article published on 19 November 2015

Draft Genome Sequence of Ornatilinea apprima P3M-1, an Anaerobic Member of the Chloroflexi Class Anaerolineae

scientific article published on 19 November 2015

Draft Genome Sequences of a Novel Lineage of Armatimonadetes Recovered from Japanese Hot Springs

scientific article published on 5 October 2017

Draft Genome of Thermanaerothrix daxensis GNS-1, a Thermophilic Facultative Anaerobe from the Chloroflexi Class Anaerolineae

scientific article

Early impacts of climate change on a coastal marine microbial mat ecosystem

scientific article published on 27 May 2022

Early plant organics increased global terrestrial mud deposition through enhanced flocculation

scholarly article

Early plants and the rise of mud

scientific article published in March 2018

Earth history. Low mid-Proterozoic atmospheric oxygen levels and the delayed rise of animals

scientific article

Effects of temperature and carbon source on the isotopic fractionations associated with O2 respiration for 17O/16O and 18O/16O ratios in E. coli

scholarly article

Energetic costs of calcification under ocean acidification

scientific article published in 2017

Enigmatic origin of the largest-known carbon isotope excursion in Earth's history

article

Erosional surfaces in the Upper Cretaceous Castlegate Sandstone (Utah, USA): Sequence boundaries or autogenic scour from backwater hydrodynamics?

scholarly article

Evidence from laminated chert in banded iron formations for deposition by gravitational settling of iron-silicate muds

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Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis

scholarly article by Woodward W. Fischer et al published 29 June 2016 in Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Evolution of Phototrophy in the Chloroflexi Phylum Driven by Horizontal Gene Transfer ⬇️

scientific article published on 19 February 2018

Evolution of the 3-hydroxypropionate bicycle and recent transfer of anoxygenic photosynthesis into the Chloroflexi

scientific article published on 18 September 2017

Evolution of the global phosphorus cycle

scientific article published on 21 December 2016

Examining Archean methanotrophy

scientific article published in May 2016

Experimental evidence that ooid size reflects a dynamic equilibrium between rapid precipitation and abrasion rates

scholarly article

Follow the Oxygen: Comparative Histories of Planetary Oxygenation and Opportunities for Aerobic Life

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Formation of Magnesium Carbonates on Earth and Implications for Mars

scientific article published in July 2021

Formation of sinuous ridges by inversion of river-channel belts in Utah, USA, with implications for Mars

scientific article published in November 2019

Four hundred million years of silica biomineralization in land plants

scientific article

Gene Sequencing-Based Analysis of Microbial-Mat Morphotypes, Caicos Platform, British West Indies

scientific article

Genomics of a phototrophic nitrite oxidizer: insights into the evolution of photosynthesis and nitrification. ⬇️

scientific article published on 19 April 2016

Geobiology of the late Paleoproterozoic Duck Creek Formation, Western Australia

scientific article

Geochemical and Metagenomic Characterization of Jinata Onsen, a Proterozoic-Analog Hot Spring, Reveals Novel Microbial Diversity including Iron-Tolerant Phototrophs and Thermophilic Lithotrophs

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

High Carbonate Alkalinity Lakes on Mars and their Potential Role in an Origin of Life Beyond Earth

scientific article published in February 2023

High manganese concentrations in rocks at Gale crater, Mars

article by Nina L. Lanza et al published 25 August 2014 in Geophysical Research Letters

How did life come to tolerate and thrive in an oxygenated world?

scientific article published on 22 July 2019

How did life survive Earth's great oxygenation?

scientific article published on April 2016

How manganese empowered life with dioxygen (and vice versa)

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

Hydraulics of Asteroxylon mackei, an early Devonian vascular plant, and the early evolution of water transport tissue in terrestrial plants.

scientific article

Impact of River Channel Lateral Migration on Microbial Communities across a Discontinuous Permafrost Floodplain

scholarly article by Madison M. Douglas et al published 28 September 2021 in Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Iron isotopes and the redox evolution of Ediacaran sediments

Iron mineralogy and redox conditions during deposition of the mid-Proterozoic Appekunny Formation, Belt Supergroup, Glacier National Park

scholarly article published in Geological Society of America Special Papers

Isotopic analyses of Ordovician–Silurian siliceous skeletons indicate silica‐depleted Paleozoic oceans

scientific article published on 17 May 2021

Isotopic constraints on the Late Archean carbon cycle from the Transvaal Supergroup along the western margin of the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa

scholarly article

Large Carbonate Associated Sulfate isotopic variability between brachiopods, micrite, and other sedimentary components in Late Ordovician strata

scholarly article by Theodore M. Present et al published December 2015 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Large sulfur isotope fractionations in Martian sediments at Gale crater

scholarly article

Large wind ripples on Mars: A record of atmospheric evolution

scientific article published on July 2016

Late-Stage Diagenetic Concretions in the Murray Formation, Gale Crater, Mars

Long‐Term Storage and Age‐Biased Export of Fluvial Organic Carbon: Field Evidence From West Iceland

scholarly article

Low-gradient, single-threaded rivers prior to greening of the continents

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Manganese and the Evolution of Photosynthesis

scientific article published on 29 May 2015

Manganese mineralogy and diagenesis in the sedimentary rock record

scholarly article

Manganese oxides in Martian meteorites Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034 and 7533

scientific article

Manganese-Iron Phosphate Nodules at the Groken Site, Gale Crater, Mars

scientific article published on 25 August 2023

Manganese-oxidizing photosynthesis before the rise of cyanobacteria ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 9 July 2013)

Marine organic matter cycling during the Ediacaran Shuram excursion

scholarly article

Materials and pathways of the organic carbon cycle through time

scientific article

Mechanistic Links Between the Sedimentary Redox Cycle and Marine Acid‐Base Chemistry

scholarly article

MetaPOAP: presence or absence of metabolic pathways in metagenome-assembled genomes

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Microbial mats in the Turks and Caicos Islands reveal diversity and evolution of phototrophy in the Chloroflexota order Aggregatilineales

scientific article

Microbial succession and dynamics in meromictic Mono Lake, California

scientific article published in July 2021

Mid‐Proterozoic Ferruginous Conditions Reflect Postdepositional Processes

scholarly article

Mineral Luminescence Observed From Space

scholarly article

Missing salts on early Mars

scholarly article

Neoarchean carbonate-associated sulfate records positive Δ³³S anomalies

scientific article

New constraints on equatorial temperatures during a Late Neoproterozoic snowball Earth glaciation

scholarly article

Non-lithifying microbial ecosystem dissolves peritidal lime sand

Non-lithifying microbial ecosystem dissolves peritidal lime sand

preprint posted on 6 October 2020

Novel hopanoid cyclases from the environment

scientific article

O2 constraints from Paleoproterozoic detrital pyrite and uraninite

scholarly article

O2 solubility in Martian near-surface environments and implications for aerobic life

On the origins of oxygenic photosynthesis and aerobic respiration in Cyanobacteria.

scientific article published in March 2017

Ooid Cortical Stratigraphy Reveals Common Histories of Individual Co‐occurring Sedimentary Grains

scholarly article

Organic carbon burial by river meandering partially offsets bank erosion carbon fluxes in a discontinuous permafrost floodplain

scientific article published in 2022

Organic carbon burial by river meandering partially offsets bank-erosion carbon fluxes in a discontinuous permafrost floodplain

scientific article

Organic sulfur fluxes and geomorphic control of sulfur isotope ratios in rivers

scientific article

Origin of acidic surface waters and the evolution of atmospheric chemistry on early Mars

scholarly article by Joel A. Hurowitz et al published 4 April 2010 in Nature Geoscience

Origin of giant wave ripples in snowball Earth cap carbonate

scholarly article

Oxidation of manganese in an ancient aquifer, Kimberley formation, Gale crater, Mars

scholarly article

P/Ca in Carbonates as a Proxy for Alkalinity and Phosphate Levels

scholarly article

Paleophysiology and end-Permian mass extinction

Physical Controls on Carbonate Intraclasts: Modern Flat Pebbles From Great Salt Lake, Utah

scholarly article

Prebiotic photoredox synthesis from carbon dioxide and sulfite

scientific article published in November 2021

Precambrian Si isotope mass balance, weathering, and the significance of the authigenic clay silica sink

scientific article published in April 2019

Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis

article

Primary Productivity Was Limited by Electron Donors Prior to the Advent of Oxygenic Photosynthesis

scientific article published in February 2019

Primary silica granules—A new mode of Paleoarchean sedimentation

scholarly article

Probing the subcellular localization of hopanoid lipids in bacteria using NanoSIMS

scientific article

Pyrite-walled tube structures in a Mesoproterozoic sediment-hosted metal sulfide deposit

scholarly article

REDOX CONDITIONS IN ENVIRONMENTS WITH EARLY EUKARYOTES FROM THE 1.4 GA BELT BASIN, USA DETERMINED FROM IRON MINERALOGY

scholarly article by Sarah P. Slotznick et al published 2016 in Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs

Real-Time Manganese Phase Dynamics during Biological and Abiotic Manganese Oxide Reduction

scientific article

Records of carbon and sulfur cycling during the Silurian Ireviken Event in Gotland, Sweden

scholarly article by Catherine V. Rose et al published February 2019 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Redox stratification of an ancient lake in Gale crater, Mars.

scientific article

Reexamination of 2.5-Ga "whiff" of oxygen interval points to anoxic ocean before GOE

scientific article published on 7 January 2022

Reply to Jones and Crowe: Correcting mistaken views of sedimentary geology, Mn-oxidation rates, and molecular clocks

scientific article (publication date: 29 October 2013)

Riverine evidence for isotopic mass balance in the Earth’s early sulfur cycle

SQUID-SIMS is a useful approach to uncover primary signals in the Archean sulfur cycle

scientific article published on April 2014

Seafloor-precipitated carbonate fans in the Neoproterozoic Rainstorm Member, Johnnie Formation, Death Valley Region, USA

scholarly article

Sedimentary pyrite δ 34 S differs from porewater sulfide in Santa Barbara Basin: Proposed role of organic sulfur

scholarly article

Sedimentology and geochemistry of Archean silica granules

scholarly article by Elizabeth J.T. Stefurak et al published 10 March 2015 in Geological Society of America Bulletin

Si isotope variability in Proterozoic cherts

scientific article published in August 2012

Siliciclastic associated banded iron formation from the 3.2Ga Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

scholarly article

Sulfate burial constraints on the Phanerozoic sulfur cycle

scientific article

Sulfur isotopes in rivers: Insights into global weathering budgets, pyrite oxidation, and the modern sulfur cycle

scholarly article by Andrea Burke et al published August 2018 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Sulfur isotopes of organic matter preserved in 3.45-billion-year-old stromatolites reveal microbial metabolism

scientific article (publication date: 18 September 2012)

THE ROLE OF SILICA AS A CHEMICAL SEDIMENT PRIOR TO THE ADVENT OF METAZOAN BIOMINERALIZATION

abstract published in 2017

Terminal Ordovician carbon isotope stratigraphy and glacioeustatic sea-level change across Anticosti Island (Quebec, Canada)

article

Texture-specific Si isotope variations in Barberton Greenstone Belt cherts record low temperature fractionations in early Archean seawater

scientific article published in February 2015

The Origin of Carbonate Mud

scholarly article

The SuperCam Instrument Suite on the NASA Mars 2020 Rover: Body Unit and Combined System Tests

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

The effects of metamorphism on iron mineralogy and the iron speciation redox proxy ⬇️

scientific article published in March 2018

The isotopic composition of authigenic chromium in anoxic marine sediments: A case study from the Cariaco Basin

article

The magnitude and duration of Late Ordovician-Early Silurian glaciation

scientific article

The rise of dioxygen—a planetary revolution

scientific article published in 2022

The stratigraphic expression of a large negative carbon isotope excursion from the Ediacaran Johnnie Formation, Death Valley

scientific article published in July 2011

The sustainability of habitability on terrestrial planets: Insights, questions, and needed measurements from Mars for understanding the evolution of Earth-like worlds

Time scale bias in erosion rates of glaciated landscapes

scientific article published on 05 October 2016

Timescales of Oxygenation Following the Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis

scientific article published on 19 August 2015

U-Pb dating of overpressure veins in late Archean shales reveals six episodes of Paleoproterozoic deformation and fluid flow in the Pilbara craton

scientific article

Variability in Sulfur Isotope Records of Phanerozoic Seawater Sulfate

scientific article

Variability in sulfur isotope records of Phanerozoic seawater sulfate

scientific article

Variability in sulfur isotope records of Phanerozoic seawater sulfate

WHY DO OOIDS GROW SO SLOWLY?

abstract published in 2016

Wind driven capillary-gravity waves on Titan’s lakes: Hard to detect or non-existent?

article

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