Were kinetics of Archean calcium carbonate precipitation related to oxygen concentration?

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 119-122

  Sumner, Dawn Y ^a,b   Grotzinger, John P ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBONATION; KINETICS; MARINE ENGINEERING; OXYGEN; SEAWATER; TEXTURES;

CALCITE PRECIPITATION; CARBONATE CRYSTALS; CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; CRYSTAL NUCLEI; CRYSTALLIZATION RATES; MARINE CARBONATES; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; SUPERSATURATED SOLUTIONS; PROTEROZOIC;

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

ARAGONITE; ARCHEAN; CALCITE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; KINETICS; MICRITE; PROTEROZOIC; SEAWATER; ARCHAEAN; CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; IRON; MANGANESE; OXYGEN; SEA WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; PALEONTOLOGY; PRECIPITATION; SEDIMENT; SOUTH AFRICA;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; MANGANESE; OXYGEN; PALEONTOLOGY; PRECIPITATION; SEAWATER; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0029657739     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0119:WKOACC>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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