Variations in pyrite texture, sulfur isotope composition, and iron systematics in the black sea: Evidence for late pleistocene to holocene excursions of the O2-H2S redox transition

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1399-1416

  Wilkin, Richard T ^a   Arthur, Michael A ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOLOCENE; IRON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PLEISTOCENE; PYRITE; SULFUR; TEXTURE;

BLACK SEA;

EID: 0035023146     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(01)00552-X     Document Type: Article

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