Contributions to late Archaean sulphur cycling by life on land

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 722-725

  Stüeken, Eva E ^a   Catling, David C ^a   Buick, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARCHEAN; MINERAL; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MOLYBDENUM; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; OZONE; PALEOSOL; PYRITE; SULFUR CYCLE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84866995497     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1585     Document Type: Article

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