Geobiology

Papers
(The TQCC of Geobiology is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Groundwater microbial communities reflect geothermal activity on volcanic island875376689
On the co‐evolution of surface oxygen levels and animals81
Radiation of nitrogen‐metabolizing enzymes across the tree of life tracks environmental transitions in Earth history33
Production of diverse brGDGTs by Acidobacterium Solibacter usitatus in response to temperature, pH, and O2 provides a culturing perspective on brGDGT proxies an32
Mineral‐hosted biofilm communities in the continental deep subsurface, Deep Mine Microbial Observatory, SD, USA31
Discovery of the oldest known biomarkers provides evidence for phototrophic bacteria in the 1.73 Ga Wollogorang Formation, Australia25
The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project25
Carbonate facies‐specific stable isotope data record climate, hydrology, and microbial communities in Great Salt Lake, UT25
Chemical signatures of soft tissues distinguish between vertebrates and invertebrates from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstätte of Illinois22
Carbon cycle inverse modeling suggests large changes in fractional organic burial are consistent with the carbon isotope record and may have contributed to the rise of oxygen22
A new constraint on the antiquity of ancient haloalkaliphilic green algae that flourished in a ca. 300 Ma Paleozoic lake22
In Situ Fe and S isotope analyses in pyrite from the 3.2 Ga Mendon Formation (Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa): Evidence for early microbial iron reduction22
A late Paleoproterozoic (1.74 Ga) deep‐sea, low‐temperature, iron‐oxidizing microbial hydrothermal vent community from Arizona, USA21
The gammaproteobacterium Achromatium forms intracellular amorphous calcium carbonate and not (crystalline) calcite20
The ‘classic stromatolite’ Cryptozoön is a keratose sponge‐microbial consortium20
Stromatolitic digitate sinters form under wide‐ranging physicochemical conditions with diverse hot spring microbial communities18
A new model for silicification of cyanobacteria in Proterozoic tidal flats16
Spherulitic microbialites from modern hypersaline lakes, Rottnest Island, Western Australia16
A micrometer‐scale snapshot on phototroph spatial distributions: mass spectrometry imaging of microbial mats in Octopus Spring, Yellowstone National Park16
Cryptogamic ground covers as analogues for early terrestrial biospheres: Initiation and evolution of biologically mediated proto‐soils15
The occurrence of 2‐methylhopanoids in modern bacteria and the geological record15
Microbial succession and dynamics in meromictic Mono Lake, California13
Formation of micro‐spherulitic barite in association with organic matter within sulfidized stromatolites of the 3.48 billion‐year‐old Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton13
Unraveling biogeochemical phosphorus dynamics in hyperarid Mars‐analogue soils using stable oxygen isotopes in phosphate12
Understanding the geobiology of the terminal Ediacaran Khatyspyt Lagerstätte (Arctic Siberia, Russia)12
In situ S‐isotope compositions of sulfate and sulfide from the 3.2 Ga Moodies Group, South Africa: A record of oxidative sulfur cycling11
Inter‐domain horizontal gene transfer of nickel‐binding superoxide dismutase11
Microbially induced chromium isotope fractionation and trace elements behavior in lower Cambrian microbialites from the Jaíba Member, Bambuí Basin, Brazil11
Infaunal augurs of the Cambrian explosion: An Ediacaran trace fossil assemblage from Nevada, USA10
Inverse hydrogen isotope fractionation indicates heterotrophic microbial production of long‐chain n‐alkyl lipids in desolate Antarctic ponds10
Anoxygenic photosynthesis linked to Neoarchean iron formations in Carajás (Brazil)10
Influence of temperature on the δ13C values and distribution of methanotroph‐related hopanoids in Sphagnum‐dominated peat bogs10
Dubiofossils from a Mars‐analogue subsurface palaeoenvironment: The limits of biogenicity criteria10
Phosphatic scales in vase‐shaped microfossil assemblages from Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Tasmania, and Svalbard10
Isotopic analyses of Ordovician–Silurian siliceous skeletons indicate silica‐depleted Paleozoic oceans10
Effects of seawater Mg2+/Ca2+ ratio and diet on the biomineralization and growth of sea urchins and the relevance of fossil echinoderms to paleoenvironmental reconstructions9
Volcanic controls on the microbial habitability of Mars‐analogue hydrothermal environments9
Biomarker stratigraphy in the Athel Trough of the South Oman Salt Basin at the Ediacaran‐Cambrian Boundary9
Influences of pH and substrate supply on the ratio of iron to sulfate reduction9
A sedimentary record of the evolution of the global marine phosphorus cycle9
Nitrogen‐based symbioses, phosphorus availability, and accounting for a modern world more productive than the Paleozoic9
Detection of the deep biosphere in metamorphic rocks from the Chinese continental scientific drilling8
Messinian bottom‐grown selenitic gypsum: An archive of microbial life8
Metagenomic analysis of microbial communities across a transect from low to highly hydrocarbon‐contaminated soils in King George Island, Maritime Antarctica8
Intense but variable autotrophic activity in a rapidly flushed shallow‐water hydrothermal plume (Kueishantao Islet, Taiwan)8
Electrochemical evidence for in situ microbial activity at the Deep Mine Microbial Observatory (DeMMO), South Dakota, USA7
Marine and terrestrial nitrifying bacteria are sources of diverse bacteriohopanepolyols7
The biogeochemical cycling of chlorine7
Builders, tenants, and squatters: the origins of genetic material in modern stromatolites7
Evaporative silicification in floating microbial mats: patterns of oxygen production and preservation potential in silica‐undersaturated streams, El Tatio, Chile7
Widespread mineralization of soft‐bodied insects in Cretaceous amber7
In search of the RNA world on Mars7
Bacterial and archaeal lipids trace chemo(auto)trophy along the redoxcline in Vancouver Island fjords7
Endospores associated with deep seabed geofluid features in the eastern Gulf of Mexico7
Evidence for local carbon‐cycle perturbations superimposed on the Toarcian carbon isotope excursion7
Neoproterozoic syn‐glacial carbonate precipitation and implications for a snowball Earth6
New preparation techniques for molecular and in‐situ analysis of ancient organic micro‐ and nanostructures6
New geochemical tools for investigating resource and energy functions at deep‐sea cold seeps using amino acid δ15N in chemosymbiotic mussels (Bathymodiolus childressi)6
Hematite‐promoted nitrate‐reducing Fe(II) oxidation by Acidovorax sp. strain BoFeN1: Roles of mineral catalysis and cell encrustation6
Carbon reservoir perturbations induced by Deccan volcanism: Stable isotope and biomolecular perspectives from shallow marine environment in Eastern India6
The interplay of environmental constraints and bioturbation on matground development along the marine depositional profile during the Ordovician Radiation6
Structure and function of Shark Bay microbial communities following tropical cyclone Olwyn: A metatranscriptomic and organic geochemical perspective6
Subseafloor Archaea reflect 139 kyrs of paleodepositional changes in the northern Red Sea6
Coccolith volume of the Southern Ocean coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi as a possible indicator for palaeo‐cell volume6
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