ArticleScience advances2023
Evolution of the crustal phosphorus reservoir.
Article in Science advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Reversed marine phosphorus gradient in the Ediacaran Ocean.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Shelf-invading low-oxygen waters control Cenozoic organic carbon burial rates.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Revisiting the greatness of Earth's great oxidation.Communications earth & environment · 2026Review
- Continental weathering-phosphogenesis coupling across the ediacaran-cambrian transition, Southwestern China.PloS one · 2026Article
- Silicate chemical weathering disrupts the global patterns of phosphorus limitation.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Evolution of phosphate scouting in the terrestrial biosphere.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- The effects of local variations in conditions on carbon storage and release in the continental mantle.National science review · 2024Review
- Lithium isotopic constraints on the evolution of continental clay mineral factory and marine oxygenation in the earliest Paleozoic Era.Science advances · 2024Article
- Redox Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Oceans Induced by the Paleoproterozoic Snowball Earth Events.GeobiologyArticle
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10 authors at 8 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
The release of phosphorus (P) from crustal rocks during weathering plays a key role in determining the size of Earth's biosphere, yet the concentration of P in crustal rocks over time remains controversial. Here, we combine spatial, temporal, and chemical measurements of preserved rocks to reconstruct the lithological and chemical evolution of Earth's continental crust. We identify a threefold increase in average crustal P concentrations across the Neoproterozoic-Phanerozoic boundary (600 to 400 million years), showing that preferential biomass burial on shelves acted to progressively concentrate P within continental crust. Rapid compositional change was made possible by massive removal of ancient P-poor rock and deposition of young P-rich sediment during an episode of enhanced global erosion. Subsequent weathering of newly P-rich crust led to increased riverine P fluxes to the ocean. Our results suggest that global erosion coupled to sedimentary P-enrichment forged a markedly nutrient-rich crust at the dawn of the Phanerozoic.
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