A new geochemical approach for constraining a marine redox condition of Early Archean

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 261, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 296-302

  Nakamura, Kentaro ^a   Kato, Yasuhiro ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

deep sea; Early Archean; redox conditions; seafloor hydrothermal alteration; U Th systematics

Indexed keywords

MARINE REDOX; SEAFLOOR HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION;

ADSORPTION; BASALT; HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REDOX REACTIONS;

NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY;

ADSORPTION; ARCHEAN; BASALT; DEEP SEA; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REDOX CONDITIONS; SEAFLOOR; THORIUM; URANIUM;

EID: 34548213708     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.07.020     Document Type: Article

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