Atmospheric sulfur rearrangement 2.7 billion years ago: Evidence for oxygenic photosynthesis

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 366, Issue , 2013, Pages 17-26

  Kurzweil, Florian ^a,b   Claire, Mark ^c   Thomazo, Christophe ^d   Peters, Marc ^e   Hannington, Mark ^f   Strauss, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric oxygenation; Great Oxidation Event; Late Archean; MIF S; Multiple sulfur isotopes

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BLACK SHALES; GREAT OXIDATION EVENT; MIF-S; MIXING RATIOS; MODELING RESULTS; MULTIPLE SULFUR ISOTOPES; NEOARCHEAN; ONTARIO , CANADA; OXIDIZING CONDITIONS; OXYGENIC PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; REDOX SENSITIVES; RELATIVE REACTION RATES; S VALUES; SULFUR ISOTOPE; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TIME-PERIODS;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; GALLIUM; ISOTOPES; METHANE; OXYGENATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REACTION RATES;

SULFUR;

ARCHEAN; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; METHANE; OXYGEN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SULFUR ISOTOPE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84874463004     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.01.028     Document Type: Article

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