Sulphur diagenesis in the sediments of the Kiel Bight, SW Baltic Sea, as reflected by multiple stable sulphur isotopes

Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 166-179

  Strauss, Harald ^a   Bast, Rebecca ^a   Cording, Anja ^a   Diekrup, David ^a   Fugmann, Artur ^a   Garbe Schönberg, Dieter ^b   Lutter, Andreas ^a   Oeser, Martin ^a,c   Rabe, Katharina ^a   Reinke, Debora ^a   Teichert, Barbara M A ^a   Westernströer, Ulrike ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; isotope biogeochemistry; isotope ecology; oxygen 18; pore water; sediments; sulphur turnover; sulphur 32; sulphur 33; sulphur 34

Indexed keywords

SEA WATER; SULFATE; SULFUR;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DIAGENESIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MARINE SEDIMENT; POREWATER; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SULFUR ISOTOPE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GERMANY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SEDIMENT;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GERMANY; SEAWATER; SULFATES; SULFUR; SULFUR ISOTOPES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; KIEL BIGHT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84858379241     PISSN: 10256016     EISSN: 14772639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10256016.2012.648930     Document Type: Article

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