Determination of the Fe(II)aq-magnetite equilibrium iron isotope fractionation factor using the three-isotope method and a multi-direction approach to equilibrium

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 391, Issue , 2014, Pages 77-86

  Frierdich, Andrew J ^a,b   Beard, Brian L ^a   Scherer, Michelle M ^b   Johnson, Clark M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

Banded iron formations; Fe isotopes; Isotopic fractionation; Magnetite; Nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL EXPERIMENTS; APPROACH TO EQUILIBRIUM; BANDED IRON FORMATIONS; FE ISOTOPES; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; KINETIC ISOTOPE EFFECTS; REDUCED PARTITION FUNCTION RATIO; STOICHIOMETRIC MAGNETITE;

EXPERIMENTS; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPES; MAGNETITE; MINERALS; NANOPARTICLES; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

MAGNETITE NANOPARTICLES;

BANDED IRON FORMATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; IRON OXIDE; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MAGNETITE; MARINE SEDIMENT; STABLE ISOTOPE;

EID: 84893721338     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2014.01.032     Document Type: Article

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