Oceanic nickel depletion and a methanogen famine before the Great Oxidation Event

Nature

Volumn 458, Issue 7239, 2009, Pages 750-753

  Konhauser, Kurt O ^a   Pecoits, Ernesto ^a   Lalonde, Stefan V ^a   Papineau, Dominic ^b   Nisbet, Euan G ^c   Barley, Mark E ^d   Arndt, Nicholas T ^e   Zahnle, Kevin ^f   Kamber, Balz S ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^f NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FERRIC HYDROXIDE; FERRIC OXIDE; IRON; METHANE; NICKEL; SEA WATER; SILICON DIOXIDE; TRACE ELEMENT;

METHANOGENESIS; MICROORGANISM; NICKEL; OXIDATION; PRECAMBRIAN; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

ARCHEAN; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC DIFFUSION; CYANOBACTERIUM; DEPLETION; METHANOGEN; METHANOGENESIS; OXIDATION; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; CHEMISTRY; EURYARCHAEOTA; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SEDIMENT;

ATMOSPHERE; EURYARCHAEOTA; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; NICKEL; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SEAWATER;

EID: 64749087356     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07858     Document Type: Article

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