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Phyllosilicate adsorption limited phosphorus bioavailability in early ferruginous oceans.
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- The Emergence of an Urable Earth: How Early Planetary Evolution Shaped the Chemical Window for Life's Origin.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Reversed marine phosphorus gradient in the Ediacaran Ocean.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Mafic-ultramafic igneous rocks as a source of reactive phosphorus for the origin of life.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Revisiting the greatness of Earth's great oxidation.Communications earth & environment · 2026Review
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The phosphorus (P) cycle links the co-evolution of the biosphere and geosphere over geologic time. Modern P availability is primarily controlled by mineral adsorption, but how such processes might have operated under early Earth's anoxic conditions remains unclear. Here, we combine experimental and theoretical investigations of P adsorption onto common phyllosilicates to evaluate their role in the early P cycle. We show that the P adsorption would have been significantly enhanced in early ferruginous waters, primarily through dissolved Fe(II) bridging between orthophosphate and mineral surfaces. Such enhanced P adsorption onto phyllosilicates could have facilitated the riverine transport of bioavailable P during Archean anoxic continental weathering, yet also promoted its rapid burial in shallow marine settings. Moreover, phyllosilicate adsorption would have limited dissolved P release during seafloor weathering in the Archean and Proterozoic oceans. These processes collectively could have limited dissolved P availability for the origin and evolution of early life.
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