The onset of widespread marine red beds and the evolution of ferruginous oceans

The onset of widespread marine red beds and the evolution of ferruginous oceans

The evolution of oceanic redox state in the past is poorly known. Here, the authors present a temporal record of banded iron formations and marine red beds, which indicate deep-ocean oxygenation occurred in the middle Ediacaran, coinciding with the onset of widespread marine red beds.

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Main Authors: Haijun Song, Ganqing Jiang, Simon W. Poulton, Paul B. Wignall, Jinnan Tong, Huyue Song, Zhihui An, Daoliang Chu, Li Tian, Zhenbing She, Chengshan Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00502-x

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00502-x

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