Stability of the nitrogen cycle during development of sulfidic water in the redox-stratified late Paleoproterozoic Ocean

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 655-658

  Godfrey, Linda V ^a   Poulton, Simon W ^b   Bebout, Gray E ^c   Fralick, Philip W ^d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC AMMONIUM OXIDATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; EUXINIC CONDITIONS; HIGH PRODUCTIVITY; IRON PRECIPITATION; NITROGEN CYCLING; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; TRACE METAL LIMITATION;

DENITRIFICATION; NITROGEN REMOVAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SURFACE WATERS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

NITROGEN;

COASTAL SEDIMENT; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DENITRIFICATION; IRON; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PROTEROZOIC; SULFURIC ACID; TRACE METAL; UPWELLING; WATER COLUMN;

EID: 84878208996     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G33930.1     Document Type: Article

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