Carbonate‐Associated Phosphate (CAP) Indicates Elevated Phosphate Availability in Neoarchean Shallow Marine Environments

Phosphorus is essential for cell biology, yet scarce in modern marine environments wherein free phosphate is consumed by life or titrated by calcium to form apatite minerals. The environmental conditions under which the early biosphere emerged and phosphorus was integrated throughout biochemistry is...

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Published in:Geophysical research letters 2022-03, Vol.49 (6), p.n/a
Main Authors: Ingalls, M., Grotzinger, J. P., Present, T., Rasmussen, B., Fischer, W. W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Apatite
Archean
Availability
Biochemistry
Bioenergetics
Biology
Biosphere
Calcium
carbonate
Carbonates
Cytology
early life
Environmental conditions
Low concentrations
Marine environment
Marine invertebrates
Minerals
Net Primary Productivity
Nutrients
Oceans
Phanerozoic
Phosphate
Phosphates
Phosphorus
Primary production
Seawater
Stromatolites
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