Did the Proterozoic 'Canfield Ocean' cause a laughing gas greenhouse?

Geobiology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 97-100

  Buick, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249279832     PISSN: 14724677     EISSN: 14724669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4669.2007.00110.x     Document Type: Editorial

References (24)

1. Anbar AD, Knoll AH (2002) Proterozoic ocean chemistry and evolution: a bioinorganic bridge? Science 297, 1137 1142.
2. Arnold GL, Anbar AD, Barling J, Lyons TW (2004) Molybdenum isotope evidence for widespread anoxia in mid-Proterozoic oceans. Science 304, 87 90.
3. Barley ME, Groves DI (1992) Supercontinent cycles and the distribution of metal deposits through time. Geology 20, 291 294.
4. Beaumont V, Robert, F (1999) Nitrogen isotope ratios of kerogens in Precambrian cherts: a record of the evolution of atmospheric chemistry? Precambrian Research 96, 63 82.
5. Brocks JJ, Love GD, Summons RE, Knoll AH, Logan GA, Bowden SA (2005) Biomarker evidence for green and purple sulphur bacteria in a stratified Palaeoproterozoic sea. Nature 437, 866 870.
6. Buick R, Des Marais DJ, Knoll AH (1995) Stable isotopic compositions of carbonates from the Mesoproterozoic Bangemall Group, northwestern Australia. Chemical Geology 123, 153 171.
7. Canfield DE (1998) A new model for Proterozoic ocean chemistry. Nature 396, 450 453.
8. Claire MW, Catling DC, Zahnle KJ (2006) Biogeochemical modelling of the rise in atmospheric oxygen. Geobiology 4, 239 269.
9. Granger J, Ward BB (2003) Accumulation of nitrogen oxides in copper-limited cultures of denitrifying bacteria. Limnology and Oceanography 48, 313 318.
10. Haltia T, Brown K, Tegoni M, Cambillau C, Saraste M, Mattila K, Djinovi-Carugo K (2003) The crystal structure of nitrous oxide reductase from Paracoccus denitrificans at 1.6 Å resolution. Biochemical Journal 369, 77 88.
11. Hayes JM (1994) Global methanotrophy at the Archean-Proterozoic transition. In Early Life on Earth (ed. S Bengtson). Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 220 236.
12. Johnston DT, Poulton SW, Fralick PW, Wing BA, Canfield DE, Farquhar J (2006) Evolution of the oceanic sulfur cycle at the end of the Paleoproterozoic. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70, 5723 5739.
13. Kah LC, Lyons TW, Frank TD (2004) Low marine sulphate and protracted oxygenation of the Proterozoic biosphere. Nature 431, 834 838.
14. Kasting JF (1993) Earth's early atmosphere. Science 259, 920 926.
15. Knoll AH (1992) The early evolution of eukaryotes: a geological perspective. Science 256, 622 627.
16. Morel FMM, Price NM (2003) The biogeochemical cycles of trace metals in the oceans. Science 300, 944 947.
17. Poulton SW, Fralick PW, Canfield DE (2004) The transition to a sulphidic ocean ∼1.84 billion years ago. Nature 431, 173 177.
18. Rouxel OJ, Bekker A, Edwards KJ (2005) Iron isotope constraints on the Archean and Paleoproterozoic ocean redox state. Science 307, 1088 1091.
19. Saito MA, Sigman DM, Morel FMM (2003) The bioinorganic chemistry of the ancient ocean: the co-evolution of cyanobacterial metal requirements and biogeochemical cycles at the Archean-Proterozoic boundary? Inorganica Chimica Acta 356, 308 318.
20. Shen Y, Canfield DE, Knoll AH (2002) Middle Proterozoic ocean chemistry: evidence from the McArthur Basin, northern Australia. American Journal of Science 302, 81 109.
21. Shen Y, Knoll AH, Walter MR (2003) Evidence for low sulphate and anoxia in a mid-Proterozoic marine basin. Nature 423, 632 635.
22. Shields G, Veizer J (2002) Precambrian marine carbonate isotope database: version 1.1. Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems 3, 12 pp.
23. Zahnle KJ, Claire M, Catling D (2006) The loss of mass-independent fractionation in sulfur due to a Palaeoproterozoic collapse of atmospheric methane. Geobiology 4, 271 283.
24. Zerkle AL, House CH, Cox RP, Canfield DE (2006) Metal limitation of cyanobacterial N2 fixation and implications for the Precambrian nitrogen cycle. Geobiology 4, 285 297.