Did nutrient-rich oceans fuel Earth’s oxygenation?

Rhabdophane Th-Pb ages indicate reactivation of Mesoarchean structures in west Pilbara Craton during breakup of Greater India and Australia-Antarctica

Refining the Paleoproterozoic tectonothermal history of the Penokean Orogen: New U-Pb age constraints from the Pembine-Wausau terrane, Wisconsin, USA

Apatite nanoparticles in 3.46–2.46 Ga iron formations: Evidence for phosphorus-rich hydrothermal plumes on early Earth

U-Pb dating of overpressure veins in late Archean shales reveals six episodes of Paleoproterozoic deformation and fluid flow in the Pilbara craton

Hematite replacement and oxidative overprinting recorded in the 1.88 Ga Gunflint iron formation, Ontario, Canada

A 1.25 Ga depositional age for the “Paleoproterozoic” Mapedi red beds, Kalahari manganese field, South Africa: New constraints on the timing of oxidative weathering and hematite mineralization

U-Pb evidence for a 2.15 Ga orogenic event in the Archean Kaapvaal (South Africa) and Pilbara (Western Australia) cratons

Organic-rich microfossils produced by oil infiltration of hollow silicified bacteria: Evidence from the ca. 340 Ma Red Dog Zn-Pb deposit, Alaska

Evidence for widespread oil migration in the 1.88 Ga Gunflint Formation, Ontario, Canada

Evidence for anoxic shallow oceans at 2.45 Ga: Implications for the rise of oxygenic photosynthesis

U-Pb monazite ages of the Kabanga mafic-ultramafic intrusions and contact aureoles, central Africa: Geochronological and tectonic implications

Evidence from laminated chert in banded iron formations for deposition by gravitational settling of iron-silicate muds

Multiple episodes of hematite mineralization indicated by U-Pb dating of iron-ore deposits, Marquette Range, Michigan, USA

Precipitation of iron silicate nanoparticles in early Precambrian oceans marks Earth’s first iron age

Geochronological Constraints on the Tropicana Gold Deposit and Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia

Seafloor silicification and hardground development during deposition of 2.5 Ga banded iron formations

The occurrence and composition of chevkinite-(Ce) and perrierite-(Ce) in tholeiitic intrusive rocks and lunar mare basalt

Hematite replacement of iron-bearing precursor sediments in the 3.46-b.y.-old Marble Bar Chert, Pilbara craton, Australia

Iron silicate microgranules as precursor sediments to 2.5-billion-year-old banded iron formations