Rare earth elements in seep carbonates as tracers of variable redox conditions at ancient hydrocarbon seeps

Terra Nova

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-56

  Feng, Dong ^a,b   Chen, Duofu ^a   Peckmann, Jörn ^c  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; CARBONATE; FLUID FLOW; HYDROCARBON SEEP; LIMESTONE; LITHOLOGY; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; TRACER;

EID: 63149087282     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: 13653121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2008.00855.x     Document Type: Article

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