Insights from stable S and O isotopes into biogeochemical processes and genesis of Lower Cambrian barite-pyrite concretions of South China

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1278-1288

  Goldberg, Tatiana ^a,c   Mazumdar, Aninda ^b   Strauss, Harald ^a   Shields, Graham ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; METHANE FLUX; SULPHATE REDUCTION;

BACTERIA; FLUID MECHANICS; GEOCHEMISTRY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SULFUR;

RADIOISOTOPES;

CAMBRIAN; DIAGENESIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); STABLE ISOTOPE; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; SULFUR ISOTOPE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33748897405     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2006.04.013     Document Type: Article

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