Early Proterozoic weathering processes under low O2 conditions reconstructed from a 2.45 Ga paleosol in Pronto, Canada

American Mineralogist

Volumn 96, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1613-1623

  Murakami, Takashi ^a   Kasama, Takeshi ^a,b   Utsunomiya, Satoshi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Alteration; Atmospheric evolution; Chlorite; Mixed layers; Paleosol; Weathering

Indexed keywords

BIOTITE; CLAY MINERALS; MICA; MINERALOGY;

ALTERATION; ATMOSPHERIC EVOLUTION; CHLORITE; MIXED LAYER; PALEOSOL;

WEATHERING;

BIOTITE; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; CHLORITE; METASOMATISM; MINERALIZATION; MIXED LAYER; OXYGEN; PALEOSOL; PROTEROZOIC; RECONSTRUCTION; SMECTITE; VERMICULITE; WEATHERING PROFILE; WEATHERING RATE;

CANADA;

EID: 81455131934     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: 19453027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2011.3821     Document Type: Article

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