Earth’s first biological bloom: An integrated field, geochemical, and geobiological examination of the origins of photosynthesis and carbonate production 3 billion years ago

Project Information

EARTHBLOOM

Grant agreement ID: 716515

DOI 10.3030/716515

Project closed

EC signature date 18 January 2017

Start date 1 February 2017

End date 31 January 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 848 685,00

EU contribution € 1 848 685,00

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (4)

Post-depositional REE mobility in a Paleoarchean banded iron formation revealed by La-Ce geochronology: A cautionary tale for signals of ancient oxygenation

Author(s): P. Bonnand, S.V. Lalonde, M. Boyet, C. Heubeck, M. Homann, P. Nonnotte, I. Foster, K.O. Konhauser, I. Köhler
Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Issue 547, 2020, Page(s) 116452, ISSN 0012-821X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116452

Sedimentology and geochemistry of basinal lithofacies in the Mesoarchean (2.93 Ga) Red Lake carbonate platform, northwest Ontario, Canada

Author(s): M. Afroz, P.W. Fralick, S.V. Lalonde
Published in: Precambrian Research, Issue 388, 2023, Page(s) 106996, ISSN 0301-9268
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2023.106996

Evidence for benthic oxygen production in Neoarchean lacustrine stromatolites

Author(s): Wilmeth DT, Lalonde SV, Berelson WM, Petryshyn V, Celestian AJ, Beukes NJ, Awramik SM, Spear JR, Mahseredjian T, Corsetti FA
Published in: Geology, Issue 50, 2022, Page(s) 907-911, ISSN 1943-2682
Publisher: Geological Society of America
DOI: 10.1130/g49894.1

Global importance of oxic molybdenum sinks prior to 2.6 Ga revealed by the Mo isotope composition of Precambrian carbonates

Author(s): Marie Thoby, Kurt O. Konhauser, Philip W. Fralick, Wladyslaw Altermann, Pieter T. Visscher, Stefan V. Lalonde
Published in: Geology, Issue 47/6, 2019, Page(s) 559-562, ISSN 0091-7613
Publisher: Geological Society of America
DOI: 10.1130/g45706.1

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Environmental control of seawater geochemistry in a Mesoarchean Peritidal System, Woman Lake, Superior Province

Author(s): B. Ramsay
Published in: 2020
Publisher: Lakehead University

Sedimentology and geochemistry of the 2.93 Ga Basinal Facies of the Red Lake carbonate platform

Author(s): M. Afroz
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Lakehead University