Preservation of biosignatures in metaglassy volcanic rocks from the Jormua ophiolite complex, Finland

Precambrian Research

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 125-137

  Furnes, Harald ^a   Banerjee, Neil R ^a,b   Muehlenbachs, Karlis ^b   Kontinen, Asko ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

13C; Bioalteration; Early Proterozoic; Finland; Ophiolite; Volcanic glass

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLE; CARBONIC ACID; GLASS;

BIOMINERALIZATION; MINERAL ALTERATION; OPHIOLITE; PROTEROZOIC; VOLCANIC ROCK;

ARTICLE; BASALT; BIOSYNTHESIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXTRACTION; FINLAND; GEOCHEMISTRY; METAMORPHOSIS; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION KINETICS; ROCK; SEA; VOLCANO; X RAY MICROANALYSIS;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; JORMUA; NORTHERN EUROPE; OULU [FINLAND]; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

EID: 11444259617     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2004.09.009     Document Type: Article

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