Widespread iron-rich conditions in the mid-Proterozoic ocean

Nature

Volumn 477, Issue 7365, 2011, Pages 448-451

  Planavsky, Noah J ^a   McGoldrick, Peter ^b   Scott, Clinton T ^a   Li, Chao ^a,c   Reinhard, Christopher T ^a   Kelly, Amy E ^a   Chu, Xuelei ^d   Bekker, Andrey ^e   Love, Gordon D ^a   Lyons, Timothy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; TRACE ELEMENT;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BIOSPHERE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DEEP SEA; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; IRON; MUDSTONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; REDOX CONDITIONS; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACE ELEMENT;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; BIOSPHERE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PHANEROZOIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEROZOIC; SEA;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; IRON; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; SULFUR; SULFUR ISOTOPES; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 80053132164     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10327     Document Type: Article

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