Pyrite paragenesis and multiple sulfur isotope distribution in late Archean and early Paleoproterozoic Hamersley Basin sediments

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 272, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 41-49

  Partridge, Michaela A ^a   Golding, Suzanne D ^a   Baublys, Kim A ^a   Young, Elisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archean; Great Oxidation Event; Hamersley Basin; multiple sulfur isotopes; Proterozoic; pyrite morphology

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN; BASIN SEDIMENTS; EARLY EARTH; ELEMENTAL SULFUR (ES); FINE GRAINED; OXIC ATMOSPHERE; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; RELATIVE IMPACT; SULFATE REDUCTION; SULFUR ISOTOPES; SULFUR SOURCES; TRANSITION (JEL CLASSIFICATIONS:E52 ,E41 ,E31); WESTERN AUSTRALIA (WA);

BIOCHEMISTRY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; IGNEOUS ROCKS; ISOTOPES; METABOLISM; MINERALOGY; MORPHOLOGY; OXYGEN; PYRITES; SEDIMENTATION; SULFATE MINERALS;

SULFUR;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ARCHEAN; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MORPHOLOGY; OXIC CONDITIONS; OXYGENATION; PARAGENESIS; PROTEROZOIC; PYRITE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SULFUR ISOTOPE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; HAMERSLEY BASIN; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 47749116440     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.03.051     Document Type: Article

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