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Living in Their Heyday: Iron-Oxidizing Bacteria Bloomed in Shallow-Marine, Subtidal Environments at ca. 1.88 Ga.

Alex Kovalick, Andy W Heard, Aleisha C Johnson, Clara S Chan, Luke Ootes, Sune G Nielsen, Nicolas Dauphas, Bodo Weber, Andrey Bekker

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Article in Geobiology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Microbial respiration - a biomineral perspective.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Alex KovalickDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5803-4524
Andy W HeardDepartment of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.
Aleisha C JohnsonOrigins Laboratory, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Clara S ChanDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1810-4994
Luke OotesBritish Columbia Geological Survey, Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Sune G NielsenDepartment of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA.
Nicolas DauphasOrigins Laboratory, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Bodo WeberDepartamento de Geología, Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, CICESE, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
Andrey BekkerDepartment of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Riverside, California, USA.

Funding

CONTACTyT infrastructure grant INFR-2016-01-269082NASA Exobiology grant 80NSSC22K1628National Science Foundation Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowships (1952809)NSERC Discovery and Accelerator GrantsPolar Continental Shelf ProgramSociety of Economic Geologists - Graduate Student Fellowship ProgramThe Petroleum Foundation of the American Chemical Society grant 624840ND2WHOI Postdoctoral Scholarship
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The majority of large iron formations (IFs) were deposited leading up to Earth's great oxidation episode (GOE). Following the GOE, IF deposition decreased for almost 500 Myr. Subsequently, around 1.88 Ga, there was widespread deposition of shallow-water granular iron formations (GIF) within a geologically short time interval, which has been linked to enhanced iron (Fe) supply to seawater from submarine hydrothermal venting associated with the emplacement of large igneous provinces. Previous studies of Fe-rich, microfossil-bearing stromatolites from the ca. 1.88 Ga Gunflint Formation on the Superior craton suggested direct microbial oxidation of seawater Fe

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BacteriaIronOxidation-ReductionSeawaterFossilsGeologic SedimentsIrongranular iron formationsiron isotope ratiosiron‐oxidizing bacteriaPaleoproterozoic pO2rare earth elements

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PMID39639452
PMCPMC11621254

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