GEOL 766: Earth Systems Change

Lecture 05: Tuesday, September 09, 2008: Ocean redox changes: causes and consequences

Suggested reading list :
1. Bottrell, S.H., and Newton, R.J., 2006, Reconstruction of changes in global sulfur cycling from marine sulfate isotopes: Earth-Science Reviews, v. 75, p. 59-83.
2. Anbar, A.D., and Knoll, A.H., 2002, Proterozoic ocean chemistry and evolution; a bioinorganic bridge?: Science, v. 297, p. 1137-1142.
3. Kirschvink, J.L., Gaidos, E.J., Bertani, L.E., Beukes, N.J., Gutzmer, J., Maepa, L.N., and Steinberger, R.E., 2000, Paleoproterozoic snowball Earth: Extreme climatic and geochemical global change and its biological consequences: PNAS , v. 97, p. 1400-1405.
4. Kah, L.C., Lyons, T.W., and Frank, T.D., 2004, Low marine sulphate and protracted oxygenation of the Proterozoic biosphere: Nature, v. 431, p. 834-838.
5. Kaufman, A.J., Johnston, D.T., Farquhar, J., Masterson, A.L., Lyons, T.W., Bates, S., Anbar, A.D., Arnold, G.L., Garvin, J., and Buick, R., 2007, Late Archean Biospheric Oxygenation and Atmospheric Evolution: Science, v. 317, p. 1900-1903.
6. Scott, C., Lyons, T.W., Bekker, A., Shen, Y., Poulton, S.W., Chu, X., and Anbar, A.D., 2008, Tracing the stepwise oxygenation of the Proterozoic ocean: Nature, v. 452, p. 456-459.
7. Anbar, A.D., Duan, Y., Lyons, T.W., Arnold, G.L., Kendall, B., Creaser, R.A., Kaufman, A.J., Gordon, G.W., Scott, C., Garvin, J., and Buick, R., 2007, A Whiff of Oxygen Before the Great Oxidation Event?: Science, v. 317, p. 1903-1906.
8. Lyons, T.W., 2008, Ironing Out Ocean Chemistry at the Dawn of Animal Life: Science, v. 321, p. 923-924.
9. Canfield, D.E., Poulton, S.W., Knoll, A.H., Narbonne, G.M., Ross, G., Goldberg, T., and Strauss, H., 2008, Ferruginous Conditions Dominated Later Neoproterozoic Deep-Water Chemistry: Science, v. 321, p. 949-952.
10. Holland, H.D., 2006, The oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, v. 361, p. 903-915.