New insights into Archean sulfur cycle from mass-independent sulfur isotope records from the Hamersley Basin, Australia

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 213, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 15-30

  Ono, Shuhei ^a   Eigenbrode, Jennifer L ^b   Pavlov, Alexander A ^c   Kharecha, Pushker ^b   Rumble III , Douglas ^a   Kasting, James F ^b   Freeman, Katherine H ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Archean; Atmospheric evolution; Hamersley Basin; Mass independent fractionation; S 33; Sulfur cycle; Sulfur isotope

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; EVOLUTION; FRACTIONATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; PALEOATMOSPHERE; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFUR ISOTOPE;

AUSTRALIA; HAMERSLEY BASIN; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0042198681     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(03)00295-4     Document Type: Article

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