In situ trace metal analysis of Neoarchaean - Ordovician shallow-marine microbial-carbonate-hosted pyrites

Geobiology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 316-339

  Gallagher, M ^a   Turner, E C ^b   Kamber, B S ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARCHEAN; CARBONATE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INVENTORY; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MORPHOLOGY; ORDOVICIAN; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PETROGRAPHY; PRECAMBRIAN-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY; PYRITE; REDOX CONDITIONS; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; SHALLOW WATER; TRACE METAL;

CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; IRON; METAL; PYRITE; SEA WATER; SULFIDE;

ARCHAEON; ASTRONOMY; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; FOSSIL; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SEDIMENT;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CARBONATES; EARTH (PLANET); EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; METALS; SEAWATER; SULFIDES;

EID: 84930762220     PISSN: 14724677     EISSN: 14724669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12139     Document Type: Article

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