Publications

Articles published in refereed journals


Homann M, Sansjofre P, Van Zuilen M, Heubeck C, Gong J, Killingsworth B, Foster IS, Airo A, Van Kranendonk MJ, Ader M, Lalonde SV (2018) Terrestrial life and biogeochemical cycling on land 3,220 Myr ago. Nature Geoscience, DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0190-9

Wang X, Planavsky NJ, Hofmann A, Saupe EE, De Corte BP, Philippot P, Lalonde SV, Jemison NE, Zou H, Ossa Ossa F, Rybacki K, Alfimova N, Larson MJ, Tsikos H, Fralick PW, Johnson TM, Knudsen AC, Reinhard CT, Konhauser KO (2018) A Mesoarchean shift in uranium isotope systematics. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 238, 438-452.

Philippot P, Ávila A, Killingsworth B, Tessalina S, Baton F, Caquineau T, Muller E, Pecoits E, Cartigny P, Lalonde SV, Ireland T, Thomazo C, van Kranendonk M, Busigny V (2018) Globally asynchronous sulphur isotope signals require re-definition of the Great Oxidation Event. Nature Communications, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04621-x

Warchola T, Lalonde SV, Pecoits E, von Gunten K, Robbins LJ, Alessi DS, Philippot P, Konhauser KO (2018) Petrological and Geochemical Analyses of the Boolgeeda Iron Formation, Hamersley Basin, Western Australia. Precambrian Research, DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2018.07.015

Gueguen B, Sorensen JV, Lalonde SV, Peña J, Toner BM, Rouxel OJ (2018) Variable Ni isotope fractionation between Fe-oxyhydroxides and implications for the use of Ni isotopes as geochemical tracers. Chemical Geology 481, 38-52.

Konhauser KO, Robbins LJ, Alessi DS, Shannon FL, Gingras MK, Martinez RE, Kappler A, Swanner ED, Li Y-L, Crowe SA, Lalonde SV (2017) Phytoplankton contributions to the trace element composition of Precambrian banded iron formation. GSA Bulletin, DOI: 10.1130/B31648.1

Konhauser KO, Planavsky NJ, Hardisty DS, Robbins LJ, Warchola TJ, Haugaard R, Lalonde SV, Partin CA, Oonk PBH, Tsikos H, Lyons TW, Bekker A, Johnson CM (2017) Iron formations: A global record of Neoarchaean to Palaeoproterozoic environmental change. Earth-Science Reviews 172, 140-177.

Guillermic M, Lalonde SV, Hendry KR, Rouxel OJ (2017) The isotope composition of inorganic germanium in seawater and deep sea sponges. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 212, 99-118.

Playter T, Corlett H, Konhauser K, Robbins L, Rohais S, Crombez, V, Maccormack K, Rokosh D, Prenoslo D, Furlong CM, Pawlowicz J, Gingras M, Lalonde SV, Lyster S, Zonneveld, J-P (2017) Clinoform identification and correlation in fine-grained sediments: A case study using the Triassic Montney Formation. Sedimentology. DOI:10.1111/sed.12403

Warchola T, Flynn SL, Robbins LJ, Liu Y, Myers R, Gauger T, Kovalchuck O, Alam S, Wei S, Lalonde SV, Kappler A, Alessi, DS, Konhauser KO (2017) Field- and Lab-Based Potentiometric Titrations of Microbial Mats from the Fairmont Hot Spring, Canada. Geomicrobiology journal, DOI: 10.1080/01490451.2017.1282557

Robbins LJ, Lalonde SV, Planavsky NJ, Partin CA, Reinhard CT, Kendall B, Scott C, Hardisty DS, Gill BC, Alessi DS, Dupont CL, Saito MA, Crowe SA, Poulton SW, Bekker A, Lyons TW, Konhauser KO (2016) Trace elements at the intersection of marine biological and geochemical evolution. Earth Science Reviews 163, 323–348.

Chi-Fru E, Rodríguez NP, Partin CA, Lalonde SV, Andersson P, Weiss DJ, Albani El A, Rodushkin I, Konhauser KO (2016) Cu isotopes in marine black shales record the Great Oxidation Event. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, 4941–4946.

Haugaard R, Pecoits E, Lalonde SV, Rouxel O, Konhauser K (2016) The Joffre banded iron formation, Hamersley Group, Western Australia: Assessing the palaeoenvironment through detailed petrology and chemostratigraphy. Precambrian Research 273, 12–37.

Liu Y, Alessi DS, Owttrim GW, Kenney JPL, Zhou Q, Lalonde SV, Konhauser KO (2016) Cell surface acid-base properties of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus: Influences of nitrogen source, growth phase and N:P ratios. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 187, 179–194.

Konhauser KO, Robbins LJ, Pecoits E, Peacock C, Kappler A, and Lalonde SV. (2015) The Archean nickel famine revisited. Astrobiology 15, 804–815.

Dekov VM, Lalonde SV, Kamenov GD, Bayon G, Shanks III WC, Fortin D, Fouquet Y, and Moscati RJ. (2015) Geochemistry and mineralogy of a silica chimney from an inactive seafloor hydrothermal field (East Pacific Rise, 18°S). Chemical Geology 415, 126–140.

Lalonde SV and Konhauser KO (2015) Benthic perspective on Earth’s oldest evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, 995–1000.

Robbins LJ, Swanner ED, Lalonde SV, Eickhoff M, Paranich ML, Reinhard CT, Peacock CL, Kappler A, and Konhauser KO (2015) Limited Zn and Ni mobility during simulated iron formation diagenesis. Chemical Geology 402, 30–39.

Liu Y, Petrash DA, Mloszewska AM, Owttrim, GW, Alessi D, Lalonde SV, Zhou QX, and Konhauser KO (2015) Cell surface reactivity of Synechococcus sp. PCC 7002: Implications for metal sorption from seawater. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 169, 30–44.

Petrash DA, Lalonde SV, González-Arismendi G, Gordon RA, Méndez JA, Gingras MK and Konhauser KO (2015) Can Mn–S redox cycling drive sedimentary dolomite formation? A hypothesis. Chemical Geology 404, 27–40.

Dekov VM, Egueh NM, Kamenov GD, Bayon G, Lalonde SV, Schmidt M, Liebetrau V, Munnik F, Fouquet Y, Tanimizu M, Awaleh MO, Guirreh I, and Le Gall B (2014) Hydrothermal carbonate chimneys from a continental rift (Afar Rift): Mineralogy, geochemistry, and mode of formation. Chemical Geology 387, 87-100.

Planavsky N, Asael D, Hofmann A, Reinhard CT, Lalonde SV, Ossa Ossa F, Knudsen A, Wang X, Pecoits E, Smith B, Beukes N, Bekker A, Johnson T, Konhauser KO, Lyons TW, and Rouxel OJ (2014) Evidence for Oxygenic Photosynthesis Half a Billion Years Before the Great Oxidation Event. Nature Geoscience 7, 283-286.

Swanner ED, Planavsky N, Lalonde SV, Robbins LJ, Bekker A, Rouxel O, Kappler A, Mojzsis SJ, and Konhauser KO (2014) Cobalt and marine redox evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 390, 253-263.

Reinhard CT, Lalonde SV, and Lyons TW (2013) Oxidative sulfide dissolution on the early Earth. Chemical Geology 362, 44-55.

Robbins LJ, Lalonde SV, Saito MA, Planavsky NJ, Mloszewska AM, Pecoits E, Scott CT, Dupont CL, Kappler A, and Konhauser KO (2013) Authigenic iron oxide proxies for marine zinc over geological time and implications for eukaryotic metallome evolution. Geobiology, doi: 10.1111/gbi.12036.


Partin CA, Bekker A, Planavsky NJ, Scott CT, Gill BC, Li C, Podkovyrov V, Maslov A, Konhauser KO, Lalonde SV, Love GD, Poulton SW, and Lyons TW (2013) Large-scale fluctuations in Precambrian atmospheric and oceanic oxygen levels from the record of U in shales. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 367-370, 284-293.


Reinhard CT, Planavsky NJ, Robbins LJ, Partin CA, Gill BC, Lalonde SV, Bekker A, Konhauser KO, and Lyons TW (2013) Proterozoic ocean redox and biogeochemical stasis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110, 5357-5362.


Orange F, Lalonde SV, and Konhauser KO (2013) Experimental simulation of evaporation-driven siliceous sinter formation and microbial silicification in hot spring systems. Astrobiology 13, 163-176.


Orange F, Lalonde SV, and Konhauser KO (2013) The formation and preservation of Synechococcus elongatus cell moulds in simulated silica sinter: implications for the identification of microfossils. Geomicrobiology Journal 30, 327-336.


Petrash DA, Gingras MK, Lalonde SV, Orange F, Pecoits E, and Konhauser KO (2012) Dynamic controls on accretion and lithification of modern gypsum-dominated thrombolites, Los Roques, Venezuela. Sedimentary Geology 245-256, 29-47.


Konhauser KO*, Lalonde SV*, Planavsky NJ, Pecoits E, Lyons TW, Mojzsis SJ, Rouxel OJ, Barley ME, Rosìere C, Fralick PW, Kump LR, and Bekker A (2011) Aerobic bacterial pyrite oxidation and acid rock drainage during the Great Oxidation Event. Nature 478, 369-373. *Authors contributed equally.


Gingras M, Hagadorn JW, Seilacher A, Lalonde SV, Pecoits E, Petrash D, and Konhauser KO (2011) Possible evolution of mobile animals in association with microbial mats. Nature Geoscience 4, 372-375.


Petrash DA, Lalonde SV, Gingras MK, and Konhauser KO (2011) A surrogate approach to studying the chemical reactivity of burrow mucous linings in marine sediments. Palaios 26, 594-600.


Planavsky NJ, Rouxel OJ, Bekker A, Lalonde SV, Konhauser KO, Reinhard CT, and Lyons TW (2010). The evolution of the marine phosphate reservoir. Nature 467, 1088-1090.


Petrash DA, Lalonde SV, Raudsepp M, and Konhauser KO (2010) Assessing the importance of organic matrix materials in biofilm chemical reactivity: insights from proton and cadmium adsorption onto the commercially-available biopolymer alginate. Geomicrobiology Journal 28, 266-273.


Hobbs WO, Lalonde SV, Vinebrooke RD, Konhauser KO, Weidman RP, Graham MD, and Wolfe, AP (2010) Algal-silica cycling and pigment diagenesis in recent alpine lake sediments: mechanisms and paleoecological implications. Journal of Paleoliminology 44, 613-628.


Lalonde SV, Dafoe LT, Pemberton SG, Gingras MK, and Konhauser KO (2010) Investigating the Geochemical Impact of Burrowing Animals: Proton and Cadmium Adsorption onto the Mucus Lining of Terebellid Polychaete Worms. Chemical Geology 271, 44-51.


Baker MG, Lalonde SV, Konhauser KO, and Foght JM (2010) The role of extracellular polymeric substances in the surface chemical reactivity of Hymenobacter aerophilus, a psychrotolerant bacterium. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 76, 102-109.


Konhauser KO, Pecoits E, Lalonde SV, Papineau D, Nisbet EG, Barley ME, Arndt NT, Zahnle K, and Kamber BS (2009) Oceanic Nickel Depletion and a Methanogen Famine Before the Great Oxidation Event. Nature 458, 750-754.


Konhauser KO, Lalonde SV, and Phoenix, VR (2008) Bacterial Biomineralization: Where to from here? Geobiology 6, 298-302.


Lalonde SV, Smith DS, Owttrim GW, and Konhauser KO (2008) Acid-base properties of cyanobacterial surfaces I: influences of growth phase and nitrogen metabolism on cell surface reactivity. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 72, 1257-1268.


Lalonde SV, Smith DS, Owttrim GW, and Konhauser KO (2008) Acid-base properties of cyanobacterial surfaces II: silica as a chemical stressor influencing cell surface reactivity. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 722, 1269-1280.


Konhauser KO, Amskold L, Lalonde SV, Posth NR, Kappler A, and Anbar A (2007) Decoupling photooxidation from shallow-water BIF deposition. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 258, 87-100.


Konhauser KO, Lalonde SV, Amskold L, and Holland HD. (2007) Was there really an Archean phosphate crisis? Science 315, 1234.


Lalonde SV, Amskold L, McDermott TR, Inskeep WP, and Konhauser KO (2007) Chemical reactivity of microbe and mineral surfaces in hydrous ferric oxide depositing hydrothermal springs. Geobiology 5, 219-234.


Lalonde SV, Amskold L, Warren LA, and Konhauser KO (2007) Surface chemical reactivity and metal adsorptive properties of natural cyanobacterial mats from an alkaline hydrothermal spring, Yellowstone National Park. Chemical Geology 243, 36-52.


Gingras MK, Lalonde SV, Amskold L, and Konhauser KO (2007) Wintering Chironomid larvae mine oxygen. Palaios 22, 433-438.


Zorn ME, Lalonde SV, Gingras MK, Pemberton SG, and Konhauser KO (2006) Microscale distribution of oxygen in the burrow walls of seven intertidal invertebrates from Willapa Bay, Washington. Geobiology 4, 137-145.


Lalonde SV, Konhauser KO, Reysenbach AL, and Ferris FG (2005) The experimental silicification of Aquificales and their role in hot spring sinter formation. Geobiology 3, 41-52.



Other refereed contributions


Peacock CL, Lalonde SV, Konhauser KO (2017) Iron minerals as archives of Earth’s redox and biogeochemical evolution. European Mineralogical Union Notes in Mineralogy, volume 17, 121-172.


Konhauser KO and Lalonde SV (2010) Microbial Silicification at Hot Springs. In Schroeder, PA (Editor), Clays of Yellowstone National Park. Clay Mineral Society Workshop Lecture Series volume 17, 94 pp.


Reysenbach A-L, Banta A, Civello S, Daly J, Mitchel K, Lalonde SV, Konhauser KO, Rustenholtz K, and Takacs-Vesbach C (2005) The Aquificales in Yellowstone National Park, In Inskeep WP and TR McDermott (Editors), Geothermal Biology and Geochemistry in Yellowstone National Park: proceedings of the Thermal Biology Institute workshop. Montana State University Publications, Bozeman, MT.


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