Sulfur isotope fractionation during bacterial sulfate reduction in organic-rich sediments

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 61, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 5351-5361

  Habicht, Kirsten S ^a   Canfield, Donald E ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER; SULFATE; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MICROBIAL MAT; REDUCTION; SULPHATE; SULPHUR;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENMARK; EGYPT; FRACTIONATION; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SEDIMENT;

CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; DENMARK; EGYPT; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SEAWATER; SULFATES; SULFIDES; SULFUR; SULFUR ISOTOPES; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA;

DENMARK, LOGTEN LAGOON; EGYPT, SINAI, SOLAR LAKE;

EID: 0031411616     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(97)00311-6     Document Type: Article

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