Sulfur and carbon isotope records from 1700 to 800 Ma carbonates of the Jixian section, northern China: Implications for secular isotope variations in Proterozoic seawater and relationships to global supercontinental events

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 71, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 4668-4692

  Chu, Xuelei ^a   Zhang, Tonggang ^a   Zhang, Qirui ^a   Lyons, Timothy W ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE SEDIMENT; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; SECULAR VARIATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; SULFUR ISOTOPE; TECTONIC SETTING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JIXIAN; SHANXI;

EID: 35248847840     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2007.07.017     Document Type: Article

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