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Record W3119126117 · doi:10.1002/9781119507444.ch21

Breaking the Boring Billion

2021· other· en· W3119126117 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueGeophysical monograph · 2021
Typeother
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicPaleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPrecambrianProterozoicBiogeochemical cycleEarth scienceGeologyGeologic recordWeatheringPaleontologyPhanerozoicExtinction eventAtmosphere (unit)EcologyTectonicsCenozoicGeography

Abstract

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Emplacement and weathering of large igneous provinces (LIPs) can have dramatic effects on global climate and biogeochemical systems. In the Phanerozoic, these events are often linked to expanding oceanic anoxia, widespread deposition of organic-rich shales, and metazoan extinctions. In the Precambrian, LIP activity would have had similar potential to perturb global systems, though the outcome may have differed given different starting conditions. Specifically, against a backdrop of mostly low oxygen conditions, Precambrian LIP emplacement may have stimulated oxygenation of the atmosphere and shallow oceans, which could have favored innovations among eukaryotic life. Here, we review the records of several oceanic-atmosphere redox proxies, summarize their utility, and compare them with the record of continental LIPs. While the mid-Proterozoic (1.8–0.8 Ga) is famous for long-term environmental stability, several independent proxies suggest the possibility that conditions were transiently more oxygenated at ~1.4 Ga. This time coincides roughly with a period of increased LIP activity that has been recently linked with widespread deposition of black shales. We explore the possibility that LIP-induced impacts on productivity might have favored organic matter burial, transient oxygenation, and potential advantages for aerobic life, focusing in particular on the feedbacks that maintained environmental balance for nearly a billion years. Our understanding of the evolution of Proterozoic environmental conditions is still nascent, but as records improve and we search for mechanisms that underpinned long-term stability or drove secular change, it is critical that the whole Earth system be considered.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.911
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.204 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it