Sulfur diagenesis and partitioning in Holocene Peru shelf and upper slope sediments

Chemical Geology

Volumn 163, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 219-234

  Suits, Neil S ^a   Arthur, Michael A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Organic sulfur; Oxygen minimum zone; Pyrite; Sedimentary iron

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SHELF; CONTINENTAL SLOPE; DIAGENESIS; HOLOCENE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PARTITIONING; SULFUR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034056243     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(99)00114-X     Document Type: Article

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