Trace element content of sedimentary pyrite in black shales

Economic Geology

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1389-1410

  Gregory, Daniel D ^a   Large, Ross R ^a   Halpin, Jacqueline A ^a   Baturina, Elena Lounejeva ^a   Lyons, Timothy W ^b   Wu, Selina ^a   Danyushevsky, Leonid ^a   Sack, Patrick J ^c   Chappaz, Anthony ^d   Maslennikov, Valeriy V ^e   Bull, Stuart W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Yukon Geological Survey   (Canada)

^d CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF MINERALOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONACEOUS SHALE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; LASER ABLATION; PYRITES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TEXTURES; ZINC SULFIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC OXIDATION; ELEMENT ABUNDANCES; LASER ABLATION INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRIES (LA ICP MS); LOW CONCENTRATIONS; SULFIDIC SEDIMENTS; TRACE ELEMENT COMPOSITION; TRACE ELEMENT CONCENTRATIONS; TRACE ELEMENT CONTENT;

TRACE ELEMENTS;

ADSORPTION; BLACK SHALE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; INCLUSION; IRON SULFIDE; OXYGENATION; PYRITE; SEDIMENTARY ROCK; TEXTURE; TRACE ELEMENT;

EID: 84938250135     PISSN: 03610128     EISSN: 15540774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/econgeo.110.6.1389     Document Type: Article

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