Speciation and isotope ratios of nitrogen in fluid inclusions from seafloor hydrothermal deposits at ∼ 3.5 Ga

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 254, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 332-344

  Nishizawa, Manabu ^a,b   Sano, Yuji ^a   Ueno, Yuichiro ^b   Maruyama, Shigenori ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early Archean; fluid inclusion; N cycle; N isotopes; N speciation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ASSIMILATION; FLUID INCLUSIONS; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSITS; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION;

HYDROCARBONS; NITROGEN; SEAWATER;

GEOCHEMISTRY;

ARCHEAN; FLUID INCLUSION; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; KEROGEN; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SEAFLOOR; SEAWATER; SILICEOUS DEPOSIT; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY);

ARCTIC; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NORTH POLE; PILBARA BLOCK; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33846569946     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.11.044     Document Type: Article

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