Young poorly crystalline graphite in the >3.8-Gyr-old Nuvvuagittuq banded iron formation

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 376-379

  Papineau, D ^a,b   De Gregorio, B T ^c   Cody, G D ^a   O'Neil, J ^a   Steele, A ^a   Stroud, R M ^d   Fogel, M L ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^d NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLE; APATITE; ARCHEAN; BANDED IRON FORMATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CRYSTALLINE ROCK; GRAPHITE; HOST ROCK; METAMORPHISM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

ARCTIC; CANADA; GREENLAND; WEST GREENLAND;

EID: 79957810000     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1155     Document Type: Article

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