Proterozoic ocean redox and biogeochemical stasis

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

Volumn 110, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 5357-5362

  Reinhard, Christopher T ^a,b   Planavsky, Noah J ^a,b   Robbins, Leslie J ^c   Partin, Camille A ^d   Gill, Benjamin C ^e   Lalonde, Stefan V ^f   Bekker, Andrey ^d   Konhauser, Kurt O ^c   Lyons, Timothy W ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^e Virginia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^f Universite de Bretagne Occidentale   (France)

Author keywords

Geobiology; Paleoceanography

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; METAL; MOLYBDENUM; SULFIDE;

ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOSPHERE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DATA BASE; EARTHQUAKE; MARINE BACTERIUM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEROZOIC; SEA; SEDIMENT;

ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; METALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANOGRAPHY; OCEANS AND SEAS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXYGEN; PLANKTON;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84875871658     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208622110     Document Type: Article

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