Evidence for a redox stratified Cryogenian marine basin, Datangpo Formation, South China

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 331-332, Issue , 2012, Pages 246-256

  Li, Chao ^a,b   Love, Gordon D ^b   Lyons, Timothy W ^b   Scott, Clinton T ^b   Feng, Lianjun ^c   Huang, Jing ^c   Chang, Huajin ^d   Zhang, Qirui ^c   Chu, Xuelei ^c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d QINGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cryogenian ocean chemistry; Datangpo Formation; Iron speciation; S isotope

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL SULFATE REDUCTION; BLACK SHALES; CHEMICAL CONDITIONS; DATANGPO FORMATION; DEEP WATER; DEEP-MARINE; GEOCHEMICAL PROFILES; LOCAL CONTROL; MARINE BASINS; NEOPROTEROZOIC; NUTRIENT FLUXES; OCEAN BASINS; OCEAN CHEMISTRY; OPEN OCEAN; PALEOGEOGRAPHIC RECONSTRUCTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEA LEVEL VARIATIONS; SEAWATER CHEMISTRY; SEAWATER EXCHANGE; SHALLOW WATERS; SHALLOWER WATER; SILTSTONES; SOUTH CHINA; SULFATE CONCENTRATIONS; SULFUR ISOTOPE; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER COLUMNS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; MOLYBDENUM; OXYGENATION; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; SHALE; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFUR;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

BLACK SHALE; CARBON; CARBONATE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; GLACIATION; INTERGLACIAL; IRON; MOLYBDENUM; OCEAN BASIN; OPEN OCEAN; OUTCROP; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PYRITE; REDOX CONDITIONS; RIFTING; SEAWATER; SHALLOW WATER; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SULFUR ISOTOPE; WATER CHEMISTRY;

CHINA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84859639268     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.03.018     Document Type: Article

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