The isotopic composition of sulfate from anaerobic and low oxygen pyrite oxidation experiments with ferric iron - New insights into oxidation mechanisms

Chemical Geology

Volumn 281, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 305-316

  Heidel, Claudia ^a   Tichomirowa, Marion ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ferric iron; Molecular oxygen; Oxygen isotopes; Pyrite oxidation; Sulfate; Sulfur isotopes

Indexed keywords

FERRIC IRON; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; PYRITE OXIDATION; SULFATE; SULFUR ISOTOPES;

BOTTLES; EXPERIMENTS; ISOTOPES; OXIDATION; SULFUR;

MOLECULAR OXYGEN;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IRON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PYRITE; REACTION KINETICS; SULFATE; SULFUR ISOTOPE;

EID: 79551604251     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.12.017     Document Type: Article

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