A special issue honoring Bob Berner

doi:10.1016/j.gca.2006.08.033

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volume 70, Issue 23, 1 December 2006, Pages 5651-5652

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2012, Developments in Sedimentology
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The study of sedimentary sulfides has proven to be one of the most exciting areas of contemporary Earth and environmental science research. Consequently, it has attracted a number of recent reviews (cf. Barton and Hamilton, 2007; Bottrell and Newton, 2004; Brocks and Banfield, 2009; Buick, 2008; Canfield, 2004, 2005; Canfield et al., 2005, 2006; De Beer and Stodley, 2006; DeLong, 2009; Farquhar et al., 2010; Frigaard and Dahl, 2009; Fry et al., 2008; Holland, 2006; Jenkyns, 2010; Jørgensen and Boetius, 2007; Keeling et al., 2010; Kemp et al., 2009; Kirschvink and Kopp, 2008; Luther and Rickard, 2005; Lyons and Gill, 2010; Lyons and Reinhard, 2009; Lyons and Severmann, 2006; Medini et al., 2005; Meyer and Kump, 2008; Montero-Serrano et al., 2009; Ohfuji and Rickard, 2005; Parkes and Sass, 2009; Pearce et al., 2006; Rabus et al., 2006; Reeburgh, 2007; Rickard and Luther, 2006, 2007; Rickard and Morse, 2005; Roberts et al., 2011; Seal et al., 2000; Sleep and Bird, 2008; Sverjensky and Lee, 2010; Tribovillard et al., 2006). Some of the content of this book has been précised in a chapter in the second edition of Treatise on Geochemistry (Rickard, in press).
The study of sedimentary sulfides is one of the most exciting areas of current international research in many areas. Much of the information we have about the nature of the Early Earth environment is based on analyses of sulfides in sedimentary rocks. These studies are also key to understanding the occurrence of global oceanic anoxia and pollution in marine and freshwater systems. The sulfide is produced by microorganisms and thus research into sedimentary sulfides illuminates biological evolution on Earth and the origins of microbial ecology. The sequestration of sulfur in sediments in concert with the consequent preservation of organic carbon means that understanding sedimentary sulfides is a cornerstone of investigations of the global biogeochemical cycles of oxygen and carbon. Molecular approaches to microbial sulfur ecology provide insights into the present sedimentary biome. Sulfide studies have a long history and have contributed to the development of fundamental chemical paradigms such as the law of definite proportions, X-ray structural analyses of solids and, more recently, nanochemistry and nucleation theory.

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