GEOL766: Earth Systems Change

Lecture 09: Tuesday, September 23, 2008: Earth systems change: summary and remarks

If you have not read the following references up to today, you may want to take a look at the following (some of them have been listed in the previous lectures before):

1. Falkowski, P., Scholes, R.J., Boyle, E., Canadell, J., Canfield, D., Elser, J., Gruber, N., Hibbard, K., Hogberg, P., Linder, S., Mackenzie, F.T., Moore, B., III, Pedersen, T., Rosenthal, Y., Seitzinger, S., Smetacek, V., and Steffen, W., 2000, The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System: Science, v. 290, p. 291-296.
2. Canfield, D.E., 2005, The early history of Atmospheric oxygen: Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, v. 33, p. 1-36.
3. Canfield, D.E., 1998, A new model for Proterozoic ocean chemistry: Nature, v. 396, p. 450-453.
4. Hoffman, P.F., Kaufman, A.J., Halverson, G.P., and Schrag, D.P., 1998, A Neoproterozoic snowball earth: Science, v. 281, p. 1342-1346.
5. Hoffman, P.F., and Schrag, D.P., 2002, The snowball Earth hypothesis; testing the limits of global change: Terra Nova, v. 14, p. 129-155.
6. 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.
7. Zachos, J., Pagani, M., Sloan, L., Thomas, E., and Billups, K., 2001, Trends, Rhythms, and Aberrations in Global Climate 65 Ma to Present: Science, v. 292, p. 686-693.
8. Holland, H.D., 2006, The oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, v. 361, p. 903-915 (doi:10.1098/rstb.2006.1838).