Iron-oxidizing microbial ecosystems thrived in late Paleoproterozoic redox-stratified oceans

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 286, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 230-242

  Planavsky, Noah ^a,b   Rouxel, Olivier ^b   Bekker, Andrey ^c   Shapiro, Russell ^d   Fralick, Phil ^e   Knudsen, Andrew ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fe isotopes; iron bacteria; iron formations; Paleoproterozoic; rare earth elements; stromatolites

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; CYANOBACTERIAL MATS; FE OXIDE; FE-ISOTOPES; GLOBAL EXPANSION; IRON FORMATION; IRON ISOTOPES; ISOTOPIC SIGNATURES; LOW OXYGEN CONDITIONS; MICROBIAL ECO SYSTEM; NEGATIVE CE ANOMALY; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PETROGRAPHIC STUDIES; POSITIVE VALUE; PRIMARY PRODUCERS; SHALLOW WATERS; SHALLOW-WATER; STRATIFIED OCEAN; STROMATOLITES;

BACTERIOLOGY; CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; ECOSYSTEMS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; RARE EARTHS;

IRON DEPOSITS;

CYANOBACTERIUM; IRON-REDUCING BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OXIDATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PETROGRAPHY; PRESERVATION; PROTEROZOIC; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; REDOX CONDITIONS; SHALLOW WATER; STROMATOLITE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; GALLIONELLACEAE;

EID: 69749096609     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.06.033     Document Type: Article

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