Donald E. Canfield

Research interests

Publications

• The Iron Biogeochemical Cycle Past and Present

  Geochemical Perspectives · 2012 · 10.7185/geochempersp.1.1

• Ferruginous Conditions: A Dominant Feature of the Ocean through Earth's History

  Elements · 2011 · 10.2113/gselements.7.2.107

• The Evolution and Future of Earth’s Nitrogen Cycle

  Science · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1186120

• A Cryptic Sulfur Cycle in Oxygen-Minimum–Zone Waters off the Chilean Coast

  Science · 2010 · 10.1126/science.1196889

• Fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric oxygenation recorded by chromium isotopes

  Nature · 2009 · 10.1038/nature08266

• Ferruginous Conditions Dominated Later Neoproterozoic Deep-Water Chemistry

  Science · 2008 · 10.1126/science.1154499

• Late-Neoproterozoic Deep-Ocean Oxygenation and the Rise of Animal Life

  Science · 2006 · 10.1126/science.1135013

• THE EARLY HISTORY OF ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN: Homage to Robert M. Garrels

  Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · 2005 · 10.1146/annurev.earth.33.092203.122711

• Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) in the marine environment

  Research in Microbiology · 2005 · 10.1016/j.resmic.2005.01.011

• Development of a sequential extraction procedure for iron: implications for iron partitioning in continentally derived particulates

  Chemical Geology · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2004.09.003

• N2 production by the anammox reaction in the anoxic water column of Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica

  Nature · 2003 · 10.1038/nature01526

• Calibration of Sulfate Levels in the Archean Ocean

  Science · 2002 · 10.1126/science.1078265

• Biogeochemistry of Sulfur Isotopes

  Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry · 2001 · 10.2138/gsrmg.43.1.607

• The Global Carbon Cycle: A Test of Our Knowledge of Earth as a System

  Science · 2000 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.290.5490.291

• A new model for Proterozoic ocean chemistry

  Nature · 1998 · https://doi.org/10.1038/24839

• Sources of iron for pyrite formation in marine sediments

  American Journal of Science · 1998 · 10.2475/ajs.298.3.219

• Comparative Earth History and Late Permian Mass Extinction

  Science · 1996 · 10.1126/science.273.5274.452

• Late Proterozoic rise in atmospheric oxygen concentration inferred from phylogenetic and sulphur-isotope studies

  Nature · 1996 · 10.1038/382127a0

• Factors influencing organic carbon preservation in marine sediments

  Chemical Geology · 1994 · 10.1016/0009-2541(94)90061-2

• Pathways of organic carbon oxidation in three continental margin sediments

  Marine Geology · 1993 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-3227(93)90147-n

• The anaerobic degradation of organic matter in Danish coastal sediments: Iron reduction, manganese reduction, and sulfate reduction

  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 1993 · 10.1016/0016-7037(93)90340-3

• The reactivity of sedimentary iron minerals toward sulfide

  American Journal of Science · 1992 · 10.2475/ajs.292.9.659

• A new model for atmospheric oxygen over Phanerozoic time

  American Journal of Science · 1989 · 10.2475/ajs.289.4.333

• Reactive iron in marine sediments

  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 1989 · 10.1016/0016-7037(89)90005-7

• The use of chromium reduction in the analysis of reduced inorganic sulfur in sediments and shales

  Chemical Geology · 1986 · https://doi.org/10.1016/0009-2541(86)90078-1

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