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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Reconciling Archean organic-rich mudrocks with low primary productivity before the Great Oxygenation Event.

Noam Lotem, Birger Rasmussen, Jian-Wei Zi, Sarah S Zeichner, Theodore M Present, Yinon M Bar-On, Woodward W Fischer

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Noam LotemDivision of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.ORCID 0000-0001-5079-7482
Birger RasmussenSchool of Earth Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-2745-0904
Jian-Wei ZiJohn de Laeter Centre, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8094-7568
Sarah S ZeichnerDivision of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.ORCID 0000-0001-8897-7657
Theodore M PresentDivision of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.ORCID 0000-0002-4747-2174
Yinon M Bar-OnDivision of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.
Woodward W FischerDivision of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.ORCID 0000-0002-8836-3054

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The organic carbon content of ancient rocks provides a fundamental record of the biosphere on early Earth. For over 50 y, the high organic content of Archean (>2.5 Ga) mudrocks has puzzled geologists and evolutionary biologists, because high biological primary productivity was unexpected for the nascent biosphere before the rise of O

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carbon burialcarbon cycleearly biospherePrecambrianprimary productivity

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PMID39761395
PMCPMC11745403

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