High-resolution measurements of sulphur isotope variations in sediment pore-waters by laser ablation multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

Chemical Geology

Volumn 291, Issue , 2012, Pages 278-285

  Widerlund, Anders ^a   Nowell, Geoff M ^b   Davison, William ^a   Pearson, D Graham ^b,c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacterial sulphate reduction; Diffusive gradients in thin films; Esthwaite Water; Sediment microniches; Sulphur isotope fractionation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; BACTERIAL SULPHATE REDUCTIONS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CONVENTIONAL ANALYTICAL; DIFFUSIVE GRADIENTS IN THIN FILMS; DYNAMIC REACTIONS; EUTROPHIC LAKES; FAECAL PELLET; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION MEASUREMENTS; IRON SULPHIDE; ISOTOPIC VARIATIONS; LABILE ORGANIC MATTER; MARINE SEDIMENTS; MESOCOSMS; MICROBIOLOGICAL PROCESS; MULTI-COLLECTOR INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GELS; PORE WATERS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SULPHATES; SULPHUR ISOTOPE; SULPHUR ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; TWO DIMENSIONAL MAPPING;

ABLATION; ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; GELS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPES; LASER ABLATION; SPECTROMETRY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; THIN FILMS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA METHOD; IRON SULFIDE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MESOCOSM; POREWATER; REACTION RATE; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SULFUR ISOTOPE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CUMBRIA; ENGLAND; ESTHWAITE WATER; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALGAE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84855437519     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.10.018     Document Type: Article

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