Manganese enrichment in the Gowganda Formation of the Huronian Supergroup: A highly oxidizing shallow-marine environment after the last Huronian glaciation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 307, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 201-210

  Sekine, Yasuhito ^a   Tajika, Eiichi ^a   Tada, Ryuji ^a   Hirai, Takemaru ^a,d   Goto, Kosuke T ^a   Kuwatani, Tatsu ^a   Goto, Kazuhisa ^b   Yamamoto, Shinji ^a   Tachibana, Shogo ^a   Isozaki, Yukio ^a   Kirschvink, Joseph L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d Orizon Systems Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glaciation; Huronian Supergroup; Ocean redox state; Paleoproterozoic; The Great Oxidation Event

Indexed keywords

GLACIATION; GREAT OXIDATION EVENT; HURONIAN SUPERGROUP; OCEAN REDOX STATE; PALEOPROTEROZOIC;

GALLIUM; MANGANESE; MANGANESE DEPOSITS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

AUTHIGENIC MINERAL; GLACIATION; MANGANESE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); PROTEROZOIC; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEDIMENTARY ROCK;

CANADA;

EID: 79957930551     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.05.001     Document Type: Article

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