Element mobility patterns record organic ligands in soils on early Earth

Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 117-120

  Neaman, Alexander ^a,b   Chorover, Jon ^c   Brantley, Susan L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b P Universidad Catolica Valparaiso   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Basalt; Dissolution; Early Earth; Element mobility; Organic ligands; Precambrian paleosols

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CITRATES; OXIC ATMOSPHERE; OXYGEN PRESSURE; RAINWATER;

ALUMINUM; COPPER; EARTH (PLANET); EARTH ATMOSPHERE; IRON; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN; RAIN; WATER; WEATHERING;

SOILS;

EARLY EARTH; ELEMENT MOBILITY; LIGAND; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PRECAMBRIAN; SOIL CHEMISTRY;

EID: 13944284509     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20687.1     Document Type: Article

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