N2-fixing cyanobacteria supplied nutrient N for Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events

Geology

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 853-856

  Kuypers, Marcel M M ^a   van Breugel, Yvonne ^a   Schouten, Stefan ^a   Erba, Elisabetta ^b   Damsté, Jaap S Sinninghe ^a  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anammox; Black shales; Cyanobacteria; Denitrification; Nitrogen fixation; Oceanic anoxic event; Paleoceanography

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIA; ORGANIC MATTER;

ALGAE; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CELL MEMBRANES; LIPIDS; OXIDATION;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

ANOXIA; BLACK SHALE; CRETACEOUS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DENITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 7444255997     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20458.1     Document Type: Article

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