New insights into the burial history of organic carbon on the early Earth

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2004, Pages

  Bjerrum, Christian J ^a   Canfield, Donald E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Archean; Carbon isotopes; Mass balance; Model; Precambrian

Indexed keywords

EID: 20744460610     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GC000713     Document Type: Article

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