Isotopic evidence for Fe cycling and repartitioning in ancient oxygen-deficient settings: Examples from black shales of the mid-to-late Devonian Appalachian basin

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 290, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 244-253

  Duan, Yun ^a   Severmann, Silke ^b   Anbar, Ariel D ^a   Lyons, Timothy W ^b   Gordon, Gwyneth W ^a   Sageman, Bradley B ^c  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

black shales; iron isotopes; ocean redox; paleo redox; pyrite

Indexed keywords

APPALACHIAN BASIN; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; BLACK SEA; BLACK SHALES; BOTTOM WATER; BULK SAMPLES; EUXINIA; GOOD CORRELATIONS; IRON ISOTOPES; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; ISOTOPE DATA; LATE DEVONIAN; REDOX CONDITION; REDOX INDICATOR; SYSTEMATIC VARIATION; WATER COLUMNS;

ALUMINUM; EXTRACTION; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; IGNEOUS ROCKS; IRON DEPOSITS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; SHALE;

ISOTOPES;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BLACK SHALE; DEPOSITION; DEVONIAN; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; IRON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PARTITIONING; PYRITE; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY;

APPALACHIAN BASIN;

EID: 75149182689     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2009.11.052     Document Type: Article

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