Multiple sulfur and carbon isotope composition of sediments from the Belingwe Greenstone Belt (Zimbabwe): A biogenic methane regulation on mass independent fractionation of sulfur during the Neoarchean?

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 121, Issue , 2013, Pages 120-138

  Thomazo, Christophe ^a,c   Nisbet, Euan G ^b   Grassineau, Nathalie V ^b   Peters, Marc ^a   Strauss, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BIOGENIC EMISSION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; METHANE; METHANOGENESIS; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SULFUR ISOTOPE;

BELINGWE GREENSTONE BELT; ZIMBABWE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84883519405     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2013.06.036     Document Type: Article

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