Oxygen Isotope Constraints on the Sulfur Cycle over the Past 10 Million Years

Science

Volumn 303, Issue 5666, 2004, Pages 2004-2007

  Turchyn, Alexandra V ^a   Schrag, Daniel P ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXYGEN; PYRITES; SEA LEVEL; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WEATHERING;

MARINE BARITES; SULFUR CYCLES;

ISOTOPES;

OXYGEN; PYRITE; SULFUR DERIVATIVE;

BARITE; CENOZOIC; MARINE SEDIMENT; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SULFUR CYCLE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EVOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OCEAN ENVIRONMENT; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; WEATHER;

BACTERIA; BARIUM SULFATE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SEAWATER; SULFIDES; SULFUR; TIME;

EID: 1642263726     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1092296     Document Type: Article

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