Tuff life: Bioalteration in volcaniclastic rocks from the Ontong Java Plateau

Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Banerjee, Neil R ^a   Muehlenbachs, Karlis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basaltic glass; Bioalteration; Geomicrobiology; Ontong Java plateau; Stable isotopes; Tuff

Indexed keywords

EID: 72449161188     PISSN: 15252027     EISSN: 15252027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GC000470     Document Type: Article

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