Sulfur record of rising and falling marine oxygen and sulfate levels during the Lomagundi event

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 45, 2012, Pages 18300-18305

  Planavsky, Noah J ^a   Bekker, Andrey ^b   Hofmann, Axel ^c   Owens, Jeremy D ^a   Lyons, Timothy W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Great oxidation event; Lomagundi excursion; Precambrian

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON; OXYGEN; PYRITE; SEA WATER; SULFATE; SULFUR;

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DEOXYGENATION; DIAGENESIS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MESOPROTEROZOIC; MINERALOGY; NEOPROTEROZOIC; OXIDATION; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE;

CARBON ISOTOPES; CARBONATES; CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; OXYGEN; PALEONTOLOGY; SEAWATER; SULFATES; SULFUR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84868591443     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1120387109     Document Type: Article

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