Affiliation:
1. School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland
Abstract
ABSTRACT
The geological record of stable carbon isotopes preserved in marine carbonate rocks spans nearly 4 billion years. Numerous perturbations mark this record, but one stands out for its magnitude, the Lomagundi-Jatuli Event, which spanned the transition of the Earth’s surface from an anoxic to an oxic state. An
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
article by D. Y. Sumner (90:e00093-24, 2024,
https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.00093-24
) provides, for the first time, a biological explanation for its initiation, cessation, environmental specific restriction, and geological singularity.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology