Benjamin Gill

About

My research interests concern the reconstruction of the evolution of biogeochemical cycles over the history our planet, particularly the interplay of life and the physical and chemical environment through time.

Work

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Harvard University

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Postdoctoral Researcher

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Education

University of California Riverside

United States of America
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PhD

University of Missouri Columbia

United States of America
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Bachelors

Publications

Balancing Redox Budgets: Mechanisms for Prolonging Anoxia During Major Carbon Burial Events

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Molybdenum-isotope chemostratigraphy and paleoceanography of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic)

Paleoceanography

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Raman geothermometry of carbonaceous material in the basal Ediacaran Doushantuo cap dolostone: the thermal history of extremely negative δ13C signatures in the aftermath of the terminal Cryogenian snowball Earth glaciation

Precambrian Research

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Testing for presence of alternative photosynthetic pathways in plants during the Mississippian

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Lithium isotope evidence for a plumeworld ocean in the aftermath of the Marinoan snowball Earth

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Linking carbon cycle perturbations to the Late Ordovician glaciation and mass extinction: A modeling approach

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Sustained increases in atmospheric oxygen and marine productivity in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic eras

Nature Geoscience

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Carbonate δ13C chemostratigraphy of the Hunjiang Group in North China and a tentative stratigraphic framework for the Meso-Neoproterozoic transition

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Reconstructing the redox environment of the Cambrian Harkless Formation, Nevada, USA: Navigating the effects of iron-rich clay minerals on the iron speciation redox proxy

Chemical Geology

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Life on the Edge: The Cambrian Marine Realm and Oxygenation

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Trace element evidence for diverse origins of superheavy pyrite in Neoproterozoic sedimentary strata

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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Nitrate limitation in early Neoproterozoic oceans delayed the ecological rise of eukaryotes

Science Advances

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

Geobiology

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Effects of acetate, propionate, and pH on volatile fatty acid thermodynamics in continuous cultures of ruminal contents

Journal of Dairy Science

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Enigmatic provenance of carbonate clasts in Cryogenian glacial diamictite of the Nantuo Formation in South China

Precambrian Research

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Redox conditions in Late Permian seawater based on trace metal ratios in fluid inclusions in halite from the Polish Zechstein Basin

Chemical Geology

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Geochemical Records Reveal Protracted and Differential Marine Redox Change Associated With Late Ordovician Climate and Mass Extinctions

AGU Advances

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New evidence for a long Rhaetian from a Panthalassan succession (Wrangell Mountains, Alaska) and regional differences in carbon cycle perturbations at the Triassic-Jurassic transition

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Reduced Marine Molybdenum Inventory Related to Enhanced Organic Carbon Burial and an Expansion of Reducing Environments in the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) Oceans

AGU Advances

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The glass ramp of Wrangellia: Late Triassic to Early Jurassic outer ramp environments of the McCarthy Formation, Alaska, U.S.A..

Journal of Sedimentary Research

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The glass ramp of Wrangellia: Late Triassic to Early Jurassic outer ramp environments of the McCarthy Formation, Alaska, U.S.A

Journal of Sedimentary Research

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Reduced Marine Molybdenum Inventory Related to Enhanced Organic Carbon Burial and an Expansion of Reducing Environments in the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) Oceans

AGU Advances

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A long-term record of early to mid-Paleozoic marine redox change

Science Advances

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The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project

Geobiology

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Development of carbonate-associated phosphate (CAP) as a proxy for reconstructing ancient ocean phosphate levels

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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Development of carbonate-associated phosphate (CAP) as a proxy for reconstructing ancient ocean phosphate levels

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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Stratigraphic evidence of two historical tsunamis on the semi-arid coast of north-central Chile

Quaternary Science Reviews

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Variable redox conditions as an evolutionary driver? A multi-basin comparison of redox in the middle and later Cambrian oceans (Drumian-Paibian)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Redox dynamics of later Cambrian oceans

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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A long-term record of early to mid-Paleozoic marine redox change

Science Advances

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The effects of diagenesis on lithium isotope ratios of shallow marine carbonates

American Journal of Science

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Sedimentary host phases of mercury (Hg) and implications for use of Hg as a volcanic proxy

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Sedimentary host phases of mercury (Hg) and implications for use of Hg as a volcanic proxy

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Hydrothermal influence on barite precipitates in the basal Ediacaran Sete Lagoas cap dolostone, São Francisco Craton, central Brazil

Precambrian Research

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Hydrothermal influence on barite precipitates in the basal Ediacaran Sete Lagoas cap dolostone, São Francisco Craton, central Brazil

Precambrian Research

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The Road River Group of northern Yukon, Canada: Early Paleozoic deep-water sedimentation within the Great American Carbonate Bank

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

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The road river group of northern yukon, canada: Early paleozoic deep-water sedimentation within the great American carbonate bank

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

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The effects of diagenesis on lithium isotope ratios of shallow marine carbonates

American Journal of Science

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Orbitally driven redox fluctuations during Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE2) revealed by a new magnetic proxy

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Orbitally driven redox fluctuations during Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE2) revealed by a new magnetic proxy

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Assessing the Contributions of Comet Impact and Volcanism Toward the Climate Perturbations of the Paleocene‐Eocene Thermal Maximum

Geophysical Research Letters

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Assessing the Contributions of Comet Impact and Volcanism Toward the Climate Perturbations of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

Geophysical Research Letters

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Atmosphere–ocean oxygen and productivity dynamics during early animal radiations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Atmosphere-ocean oxygen and productivity dynamics during early animal radiations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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Coupled evolution of nitrogen cycling and redoxcline dynamics on the Yangtze Block across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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Coupled evolution of nitrogen cycling and redoxcline dynamics on the Yangtze Block across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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Terrestrial sources as the primary delivery mechanism of mercury to the oceans across the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Terrestrial sources as the primary delivery mechanism of mercury to the oceans across the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Evidence for the development of local anoxia during the Cambrian SPICE event in eastern North America

Geobiology

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Assessing the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation: Improving stratigraphic correlation of the Upper Doushantuo Black Shales via mercury content

Estudios Geologicos

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Evidence for the development of local anoxia during the Cambrian SPICE event in eastern North America

Geobiology

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Evaluación de la Formación ediacárica de Doushantuo: mejora de la correlación estratigráfica de las pizarras negras de Doushantuo superior a partir del contenido en mercurio

Estudios Geológicos

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Reorganisation of earth's biogeochemical cycles briefly oxygenated the oceans 520 myr ago

Geochemical Perspectives Letters

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Late inception of a resiliently oxygenated upper ocean

Science

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Late inception of a resiliently oxygenated upper ocean

Science

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Thallium isotopes reveal protracted anoxia during the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) associated with volcanism, carbon burial, and mass extinction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Thallium isotopes reveal protracted anoxia during the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) associated with volcanism, carbon burial, and mass extinction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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An evaluation of sedimentary molybdenum and iron as proxies for pore fluid paleoredox conditions

American Journal of Science

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An evaluation of sedimentary molybdenum and iron as proxies for pore fluid paleoredox conditions

American Journal of Science

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An evaluation of sedimentary molybdenum and iron as proxies for pore fluid paleoredox conditions

American Journal of Science

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Diagenetic effects on uranium isotope fractionation in carbonate sediments from the Bahamas

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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Diagenetic effects on uranium isotope fractionation in carbonate sediments from the Bahamas

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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Pliensbachian–Toarcian (Early Jurassic) Ammonoids from the Luning Embayment, West-Central Nevada, U.S.A.

Bulletins of American Paleontology

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Tracking the rise of eukaryotes to ecological dominance with zinc isotopes

Geobiology

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Tracking the rise of eukaryotes to ecological dominance with zinc isotopes

Geobiology

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Unraveling multiple phases of sulfur cycling during the alteration of ancient ultramafic oceanic lithosphere

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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Unraveling multiple phases of sulfur cycling during the alteration of ancient ultramafic oceanic lithosphere

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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Sulphur and carbon cycling in the subduction zone mélange

Scientific Reports

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Sulphur and carbon cycling in the subduction zone mélange

Scientific Reports

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Depositional and diagenetic controls on deeply-buried Eocene sublacustrine fan reservoirs in the Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China

Marine and Petroleum Geology

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Molybdenum‐isotope chemostratigraphy and paleoceanography of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic)

Paleoceanography

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Molybdenum-isotope chemostratigraphy and paleoceanography of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic)

Paleoceanography

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Evidence for rapid weathering response to climatic warming during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event

Scientific Reports

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Evidence for rapid weathering response to climatic warming during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event

Scientific Reports

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A geochemical study of the Ediacaran discoidal fossil Aspidella preserved in limestones: Implications for its taphonomy and paleoecology

Geobiology

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A geochemical study of the Ediacaran discoidal fossil Aspidella preserved in limestones: Implications for its taphonomy and paleoecology

Geobiology

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A new Early Jurassic (ca. 183 Ma) fossil Lagerstätte from Ya Ha Tinda, Alberta, Canada

Geology

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A new early jurassic (ca. 183 Ma) fossil Lagerstätte from Ya Ha Tinda, Alberta, Canada

Geology

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A new Early Jurassic (ca. 183 Ma) fossil Lagerstätte from Ya Ha Tinda, Alberta, Canada

Geology

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Evolution of the global phosphorus cycle

Nature

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Depositional and diagenetic controls on deeply-buried Eocene sublacustrine fan reservoirs in the Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China

Marine and Petroleum Geology

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High-resolution carbon isotope records of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic) from North America and implications for the global drivers of the Toarcian carbon cycle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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High-resolution carbon isotope records of the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic) from North America and implications for the global drivers of the Toarcian carbon cycle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Perspectives on Proterozoic surface ocean redox from iodine contents in ancient and recent carbonate

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Perspectives on Proterozoic surface ocean redox from iodine contents in ancient and recent carbonate

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Reorganisation of Earth’s biogeochemical cycles briefly oxygenated the oceans 520 Myr ago

Geochemical Perspectives Letters

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Stable carbon isotopes of sedimentary kerogens and carbonaceous macrofossils from the Ediacaran Miaohe Member in South China: Implications for stratigraphic correlation and sources of sedimentary organic carbon

Precambrian Research

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Stable carbon isotopes of sedimentary kerogens and carbonaceous macrofossils from the Ediacaran Miaohe Member in South China: Implications for stratigraphic correlation and sources of sedimentary organic carbon

Precambrian Research

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Raman geothermometry of carbonaceous material in the basal Ediacaran Doushantuo cap dolostone: The thermal history of extremely negative δ13C signatures in the aftermath of the terminal Cryogenian snowball Earth glaciation

Precambrian Research

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Raman geothermometry of carbonaceous material in the basal Ediacaran Doushantuo cap dolostone: The thermal history of extremely negative δ13C signatures in the aftermath of the terminal Cryogenian snowball Earth glaciation

Precambrian Research

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Chromium isotope fractionation during subduction-related metamorphism, black shale weathering, and hydrothermal alteration

Chemical Geology

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Fluid flow and related diagenetic processes in a rift basin: Evidence from the fourth member of the Eocene Shahejie Formation interval, Dongying depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China

AAPG Bulletin

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Middle–Late Ordovician (Darriwilian–Sandbian) decoupling of global sulfur and carbon cycles: Isotopic evidence from eastern and southern Laurentia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Middle–Late Ordovician (Darriwilian–Sandbian) decoupling of global sulfur and carbon cycles: Isotopic evidence from eastern and southern Laurentia

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Sulfur and carbon geochemistry of the Santa Elena peridotites: Comparing oceanic and continental processes during peridotite alteration

Lithos

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Sulfur and carbon geochemistry of the Santa Elena peridotites: Comparing oceanic and continental processes during peridotite alteration

Lithos

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Elucidating the relationship between the later Cambrian end-Marjuman extinctions and SPICE Event

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Elucidating the relationship between the later Cambrian end-Marjuman extinctions and SPICE Event

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Elucidating the relationship between the later Cambrian end-Marjuman extinctions and SPICE Event

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Trace elements at the intersection of marine biological and geochemical evolution

Earth-Science Reviews

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Trace elements at the intersection of marine biological and geochemical evolution

Earth-Science Reviews

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Chromium isotope fractionation during subduction-related metamorphism, black shale weathering, and hydrothermal alteration

Chemical Geology

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Evolution of the global phosphorus cycle

Nature

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Fluid flow and related diagenetic processes in a rift basin: Evidence from the fourth member of the Eocene Shahejie Formation interval, Dongying depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China

AAPG Bulletin

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Statistical analysis of iron geochemical data suggests limited late Proterozoic oxygenation

Nature

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Scarcity of the C30 sterane biomarker, 24-n-propylcholestane, in Lower Paleozoic marine paleoenvironments

Organic Geochemistry

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Scarcity of the C30 sterane biomarker, 24-n-propylcholestane, in Lower Paleozoic marine paleoenvironments

Organic Geochemistry

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Statistical analysis of iron geochemical data suggests limited late Proterozoic oxygenation

Nature

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Geochemical evidence for active tropical serpentinization in the Santa Elena Ophiolite, Costa Rica: An analog of a humid early Earth?

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

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Geochemical evidence for euxinia during the Late Devonian extinction events in the Michigan Basin (USA)

Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

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Geochemical evidence for euxinia during the Late Devonian extinction events in the Michigan Basin (U.S.A.)

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Interactions between Ediacaran animals and microbial mats: Insights from Lamonte trevallis, a new trace fossil from the Dengying Formation of South China

Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

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Interactions between Ediacaran animals and microbial mats: Insights from Lamonte trevallis, a new trace fossil from the Dengying Formation of South China

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Placing an upper limit on cryptic marine sulphur cycling

Nature

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Placing an upper limit on cryptic marine sulphur cycling

Nature

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Plate tectonic influences on Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic climate and animal evolution

Geology

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Plate tectonic influences on Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic climate and animal evolution

Geology

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Uranium isotopes distinguish two geochemically distinct stages during the later Cambrian SPICE event

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Uranium isotopes distinguish two geochemically distinct stages during the later Cambrian SPICE event

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Does pyrite act as an important host for molybdenum in modern and ancient euxinic sediments?

Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta

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Does pyrite act as an important host for molybdenum in modern and ancient euxinic sediments?

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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Geochemical evidence for active tropical serpentinization in the Santa Elena Ophiolite, Costa Rica: An analog of a humid early Earth?

Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems

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

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Bioavailability of zinc in marine systems through time

Nature Geoscience

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Geobiology of a lower Cambrian carbonate platform, Pedroche Formation, Ossa Morena Zone, Spain

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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Geobiology of a lower Cambrian carbonate platform, Pedroche Formation, Ossa Morena Zone, Spain

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Proterozoic ocean redox and biogeochemical stasis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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Proterozoic ocean redox and biogeochemical stasis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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Sulfur isotopes track the global extent and dynamics of euxinia during Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Sulfur isotopes track the global extent and dynamics of euxinia during Cretaceous oceanic anoxic event 2

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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Bioavailability of zinc in marine systems through time

Nature Geosci

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Uncovering the neoproterozoic carbon cycle

Nature

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Selenium as paleo-oceanographic proxy: A first assessment

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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Erratum to: A global perturbation to the sulfur cycle during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event [Earth and Planet. Sci. Lett. 312 (2011) 484-496]

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Selenium as paleo-oceanographic proxy: A first assessment

Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta

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Uncovering the Neoproterozoic carbon cycle

Nature

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Pulse of atmospheric oxygen during the late Cambrian

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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Pulse of atmospheric oxygen during the late Cambrian

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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Reply to Butterfield: The Devonian radiation of large predatory fish coincided with elevated atmospheric oxygen levels

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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A global perturbation to the sulfur cycle during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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A global perturbation to the sulfur cycle during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

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Geochemical evidence for widespread euxinia in the Later Cambrian ocean

Nature

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Geochemical evidence for widespread euxinia in the Later Cambrian ocean

Nature

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Devonian rise in atmospheric oxygen correlated to the radiations of terrestrial plants and large predatory fish

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Ancient Sulfur Cycling and Oxygenation of the Early Biosphere

Elements

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Devonian rise in atmospheric oxygen correlated to the radiations of terrestrial plants and large predatory fish

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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Tracking Euxinia in the Ancient Ocean: A Multiproxy Perspective and Proterozoic Case Study

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Tracking euxinia in the ancient ocean: A multiproxy perspective and proterozoic case study

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

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The worm turned, and the ocean followed

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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Behavior of carbonate-associated sulfate during meteoric diagenesis and implications for the sulfur isotope paleoproxy

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

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Behavior of carbonate-associated sulfate during meteoric diagenesis and implications for the sulfur isotope paleoproxy

Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta

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Parallel, high-resolution carbon and sulfur isotope records of the evolving Paleozoic marine sulfur reservoir

Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology

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Parallel, high-resolution carbon and sulfur isotope records of the evolving Paleozoic marine sulfur reservoir

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

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