Diagenetic pyritisation under eastern Mediterranean sapropels caused by downward sulphide diffusion

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 751-763

  Passier, Hilde F ^a   Middelburg, Jack J ^c   Van Os, Bertil J H ^b   De Lange, Gert J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGENESIS; ORGANIC MATTER; PYRITE; SAPROPEL; SAPROPELS; SULPHIDE DIFFUSION;

MEDITERRANEAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA, (EASTERN);

EID: 0029773735     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-7037(95)00419-X     Document Type: Article

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