Molybdenum evidence for expansive sulfidic water masses in ~750Ma oceans

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 311, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 264-274

  Dahl, Tais W ^a,b   Canfield, Donald E ^a,b   Rosing, Minik T ^a,c   Frei, Robert E ^a,d   Gordon, Gwyneth W ^e   Knoll, Andrew H ^f   Anbar, Ariel D ^e  

^a Nordic Center for Earth Evolution NordCEE   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anoxic environments; Chuar Group; Earth history; Mo isotopes; Neoproterozoic; Paleoredox

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC ENVIRONMENT; BOTTOM WATER; CHEMICAL SIGNATURES; CHEMICAL STATE; CHUAR GROUP; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; EDIACARAN; GLOBAL MARINES; GRAND CANYONS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HIGH ORGANIC; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; LOW OXYGEN; MODEL PREDICTION; NEOPROTEROZOIC; OCEAN STATE; PALEOREDOX; REDOX CONDITION; REDOX-SENSITIVE METALS; RIFT BASIN; SPECIATION DATA; SUBSURFACE WATERS; SULFIDIC WATERS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

ANIMALS; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; SEAWATER;

MOLYBDENUM;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; GEOACCUMULATION; IRON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MOLYBDENUM; OCEAN BASIN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEAWATER; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER MASS;

ARIZONA; GRAND CANYON; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA;

EID: 80054090269     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.09.016     Document Type: Article

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