Osmium evidence for synchronicity between a rise in atmospheric oxygen and Palaeoproterozoic deglaciation

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Sekine, Yasuhito ^a   Suzuki, Katsuhiko ^b,c   Senda, Ryoko ^b   Goto, Kosuke T ^a   Tajika, Eiichi ^a   Tada, Ryuji ^a   Goto, Kazuhisa ^d   Yamamoto, Shinji ^a   Ohkouchi, Naohiko ^c   Ogawa, Nanako O ^c   Maruoka, Teruyuki ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JASMTEC   (Japan)

^d CHIBA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIC ACID; OSMIUM; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; DEGLACIATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OXIDATION; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; SEDIMENT;

EID: 80055053505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1507     Document Type: Article

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