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dc.contributor.authorStueeken, Eva Elisabeth
dc.contributor.authorBellefroid, Eric
dc.contributor.authorPrave, Anthony Robert
dc.contributor.authorAsael, Dan
dc.contributor.authorPlanavsky, Noah
dc.contributor.authorLyons, Timothy
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-21T09:30:08Z
dc.date.available2017-06-21T09:30:08Z
dc.date.issued2017-06-13
dc.identifier.citationStueeken , E E , Bellefroid , E , Prave , A R , Asael , D , Planavsky , N & Lyons , T 2017 , ' Not so non-marine? Revisiting the Stoer Group and the Mesoproterozoic biosphere ' , Geochemical Perspectives Letters , vol. 3 , no. 2 , pp. 221-229 . https://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.1725en
dc.identifier.issn2410-339X
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 250279066
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 1295c90f-0217-4b86-abeb-e3ca78d7937f
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000412333400003
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85029442009
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-4614-3774/work/64033687
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-6861-2490/work/65014403
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/11038
dc.descriptionFunding for this project was provided by the NASA postdoctoral program (EES), the Lewis and Clark Fund (EES), an NSERC PGS-D grant (EJB), the NSF ELT (TWL, NJP) and FESD (TWL) programs, and the NASA Astrobiology Institute (TWL, NJP).en
dc.description.abstractThe Poll a’Mhuilt Member of the Stoer Group (Torridonian Supergroup) in Scotland has been heralded as a rare window into the ecology of Mesoproterozoic terrestrial environments. Its unusually high molybdenum concentrations and large sulphur isotope fractionations have been used as evidence to suggest that lakes 1.2 billion years ago were better oxygenated and enriched in key nutrients relative to contemporaneous oceans, making them ideal habitats for the evolution of eukaryotes. Here we show with new Sr and Mo isotope data, supported by sedimentological evidence, that the depositional setting of this unit was likely connected to the ocean and that the elevated Mo and S contents can be explained by evapo-concentration of seawater. Thus, it remains unresolved if Mesoproterozoic lakes were important habitats for early eukaryotic life.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofGeochemical Perspectives Lettersen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2017 European Association of Geochemistry. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the final published version of the work, which was originally published at https://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.1725en
dc.subjectMesoproterozoicen
dc.subjectEukaryote evolutionen
dc.subjectStoer Groupen
dc.subjectGeochemistry and Petrologyen
dc.subjectStratigraphyen
dc.subjectNDASen
dc.subjectSDG 14 - Life Below Wateren
dc.titleNot so non-marine? Revisiting the Stoer Group and the Mesoproterozoic biosphereen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Earth and Environmental Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Scienceen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Earth & Environmental Sciencesen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.1725
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article1725#Supplementary%20Informationen


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