High primary productivity and nitrogen cycling after the Paleoproterozoic phosphogenic event in the Aravalli Supergroup, India

Precambrian Research

Volumn 171, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 37-56

  Papineau, Dominic ^a   Purohit, Ritesh ^b   Goldberg, Tatiana ^c   Pi, Daohui ^d   Shields, Graham A ^e   Bhu, Harsh ^f   Steele, Andrew ^a   Fogel, Marilyn L ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Government College Sirohi   (India)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f M L SUKHADIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Black shale; Denitrification; Nitrogen isotopes; Paleoproductivity; Paleoproterozoic; Phosphate

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BLACK SHALE; DENITRIFICATION; HOMOGENEITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PROTEROZOIC; SHALE;

ARAVALLI RANGE; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; RAJASTHAN; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 65049086556     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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