Anoxia in the terrestrial environment during the late Mesoproterozoic

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 583-586

  Cumming, Vivien M ^a   Poulton, Simon W ^b   Rooney, Alan D ^c   Selby, David ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; OS ISOTOPES; PRECAMBRIAN; PROTEROZOIC; SULFIDIC WATERS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENTS; WATER COLUMNS;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPES; OSMIUM;

OXYGENATION;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; EUKARYOTE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; OSMIUM ISOTOPE; OXYGEN; OXYGENATION; PROTEROZOIC; RHENIUM-OSMIUM DATING; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84876791766     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34299.1     Document Type: Article

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