Reconstructing Earth's surface oxidation across the Archean-Proterozoic transition

Geology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 399-402

  Guo, Qingjun ^a,b   Strauss, Harald ^b   Kaufman, Alan J ^b,c   Schröder, Stefan ^d,e   Gutzmer, Jens ^d,f   Wing, Boswell ^g   Baker, Margaret A ^c   Bekker, Andrey ^h   Jin, Quesheng ⁱ   Kim, Sang Tae ^c   Farquhar, James ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^e TOTAL   (France)

^f TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CARBON ISOTOPES; EARTH'S SURFACE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL PERTURBATIONS; EVAPORITES; GREAT OXIDATION EVENT; ICE AGE; IN-PHASE; IRON FORMATION; MARINE CARBONATES; MULTIPLE SULFUR ISOTOPES; ORGANIC-RICH SHALES; PROTEROZOIC; REDOX STATE; SOUTH AFRICA; SULFUR ISOTOPE; TIME-SERIES DATA;

GALLIUM; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXIDATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SULFUR;

ISOTOPES;

ARCHEAN; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; DEPOSITION; DIAMICTITE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; OXIDATION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLANETARY SURFACE; PROTEROZOIC; RECONSTRUCTION; REDOX CONDITIONS; SHALE; SULFUR ISOTOPE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSITION ZONE;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; TRANSVAAL;

EID: 69649086416     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G25423A.1     Document Type: Article

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