Iron isotopes constrain biologic and abiologic processes in banded iron formation genesis

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 151-169

  Johnson, Clark M ^a   Beard, Brian L ^a   Klein, Cornelis ^b   Beukes, Nic J ^c   Roden, Eric E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDED IRON FORMATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETITE; ORGANIC CARBON; PETROGENESIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PYRITE; SIDERITE; WATER COLUMN;

AFRICA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; HAMERSLEY BASIN; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TRANSVAAL; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 36849016397     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2007.10.013     Document Type: Article

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