Iron formation carbonates: Paleoceanographic proxy or recorder of microbial diagenesis?

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1147-1150

  Johnson, Clark M ^a,b   Ludois, James M ^a,b   Beard, Brian L ^a,b   Beukes, Nicolas J ^c   Heimann, Adriana ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^d EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; MARINE TRANSGRESSION; PALEOENVIRONMENTS; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; SEAWATER COMPOSITIONS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; ISOTOPES; SEAWATER; STRONTIUM;

CARBONATES;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; DIAGENESIS; IRON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEAWATER; TRACER;

SOUTH AFRICA; TRANSVAAL;

EID: 84886628585     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34698.1     Document Type: Article

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