Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12883-2, published online 29 October 2019.

The original version of this Article contained an error in the Source Data for Fig. 1a. This caused some of the sulfate ∆33S data (in dark blue open diamond symbols) from around ~2.5 to 2.6 Ga (horizontal axis) to be displayed incorrectly in Fig. 1a. The caption of Fig. 1 remains the same and the mistake does not affect the conclusions of the paper. The Source Data file and Fig. 1a have now been corrected in the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.