Low marine sulphate and protracted oxygenation of the Proterozoic biosphere

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7010, 2004, Pages 834-838

  Kah, Linda C ^a   Lyons, Timothy W ^b   Frank, Tracy D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION; EARTH (PLANET); FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPES; OXIDATION; REDOX REACTIONS; SULFUR; WEATHERING;

ISOTOPIC VARIABILITY; MARINE SULFATE; OXYGENATION; PROTEROZOIC BIOSPHERE;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

CARBONIC ACID; IRON; ISOTOPE; MINERAL; OXYGEN; SULFATE; SULFIDE; SULFUR; TRACE METAL;

BIOSPHERE; OXYGENATION; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PROTEROZOIC; SEAWATER; SULFATE;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOSPHERE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENT; EUKARYOTE EVOLUTION; HISTORY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OXIDATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEROZOIC; RESERVOIR; SEDIMENT; STRATIGRAPHY; WEATHERING;

ATMOSPHERE; CALCIUM SULFATE; CARBONATES; ENVIRONMENT; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; OXYGEN; SEAWATER; SULFATES; TIME FACTORS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 7244232545     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02974     Document Type: Article

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