Evaluating the relationship between the carbon and sulfur cycles in the later Cambrian ocean: An example from the Port au Port Group, western Newfoundland, Canada

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 281, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 288-297

  Hurtgen, Matthew T ^a   Pruss, Sara B ^b   Knoll, Andrew H ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anoxic; Cambrian; Newfoundland; SPICE; sulfate; sulfur isotopes

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC; CAMBRIAN; NEWFOUNDLAND; SULFATE; SULFUR ISOTOPES;

ANIMALS; CARBONATION; FIRE HAZARDS; ISOTOPES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; ORGANIC CARBON; PYRITES; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFUR;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CAMBRIAN; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; EXTINCTION; REDOX CONDITIONS; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFATE; SULFUR CYCLE; SULFUR ISOTOPE;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA; PORT AU PORT PENINSULA;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 64549156457     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.02.033     Document Type: Article

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