Extreme sulphur isotope fractionation in the deep Cretaceous biosphere

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 167, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1009-1018

  Ferrini, Vincenzo ^a   Fayek, Mostafa ^b   de Vito, Caterina ^a   Mignardi, Silvano ^a   Pignatti, Johannes ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APENNINES; BACTERIAL SULPHATE REDUCTIONS; BLACK SEA; COMPLEX MECHANISMS; CURRENT MODELS; DEEP OCEAN SEDIMENTS; HIGH SULPHUR; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; MESOZOIC; MICRO-SCALE VARIATION; MID-CRETACEOUS; SULPHATE REDUCTION; SULPHUR ISOTOPE; WATER COLUMNS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ISOTOPES; SULFUR;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BIOSPHERE; CRETACEOUS; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MESOZOIC; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PYRITE; SULFATE; SULFUR ISOTOPE;

BLACK SEA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77956968748     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/0016-76492009-161     Document Type: Article

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