Nitrogen cycle in the Late Archean ferruginous ocean

Chemical Geology

Volumn 362, Issue , 2013, Pages 115-130

  Busigny, Vincent ^a   Lebeau, Oanez ^a   Ader, Magali ^a   Krapež, Bryan ^b   Bekker, Andrey ^c  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Archean ocean; Banded iron formation; Carbon; Isotopes; Nitrogen

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BANDED IRON FORMATIONS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC CARBON CONTENTS; ORGANIC MATTER MINERALIZATION; OXYGENIC PHOTOSYNTHESIS; VARIABLE CONCENTRATION;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOLOGY; CARBON; DENITRIFICATION; DEPOSITION; ECOLOGY; GALLIUM; IRON; ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION; SHALE; STRATIGRAPHY;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY;

ARCHEAN; BANDED IRON FORMATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NITROGEN CYCLE; OCEAN BASIN; OXYGENATION; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; REDOX CONDITIONS;

EID: 84889598785     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.06.023     Document Type: Article

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