The sources and evolution of sulfur in the hypersaline Lake Lisan (paleo-Dead Sea)

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 236, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 61-77

  Torfstein, Adi ^a,b   Gavrieli, Ittai ^a   Stein, Mordechai ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacterial sulfate reduction; Brines; Lake Lisan; Rayleigh distillation; Sulfur isotopes

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL SULPHATE REDUCTION (BSR); FRESHWATER; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; RAYLEIGH DISTILLATION EQUATIONS;

CRYSTALLIZATION; DISSOLUTION; DISTILLATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RADIOISOTOPES; SEDIMENTS;

SULFUR;

HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SALINE LAKE; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; SULFUR ISOTOPE;

ASIA; DEAD SEA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; WORLD;

EID: 22144485149     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2005.04.026     Document Type: Article

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