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Slotznick, Sarah P; Johnson, Jena E; Rasmussen, Birger; Raub, Timothy D; Webb, Samuel M; Zi, Jian-Wei; Kirschvink, Joseph L; Fischer, Woodward W · Sci Adv · 2023

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Abstract

Sedimentological, textural, and microscale analyses of the Mount McRae Shale revealed a complex postdepositional history, previously unrecognized in bulk geochemical studies. We found that metal enrichments in the shale do not reside with depositional organic carbon, as previously proposed by Anbar <i>et al</i>., but with late-stage pyrite, compromising claims for a "whiff" of oxygen ~50 million years before the Great Oxygenation Event.