Geochemistry: Active microbial sulfur disproportionation in the mesoproterozoic

Science

Volumn 310, Issue 5753, 2005, Pages 1477-1479

  Johnston, David T ^a   Wing, Boswell A ^a   Farquhar, James ^a   Kaufman, Alan J ^a   Strauss, Harald ^b   Lyons, Timothy W ^c   Kah, Linda C ^d   Canfield, Donald E ^e  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; SEAWATER; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN; SURFACE OXYGENATION;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

SEA WATER; SULFATE; SULFIDE; SULFUR; OXYGEN;

BACTERIUM; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PROTEROZOIC; SEAWATER; SULFUR;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRACTIONATION; GEOLOGY; MEASUREMENT; MESOPROTEROZOIC; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NEOPROTEROZOIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; ASTRONOMY; ENVIRONMENT; EUKARYOTIC CELL; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PROKARYOTIC CELL; SEDIMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PROKARYOTA;

ENVIRONMENT; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; SEAWATER; SULFUR; SULFUR ISOTOPES;

EID: 28544449263     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1117824     Document Type: Article

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