Causes and consequences of mid-Proterozoic anoxia

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 8538-8546

  Derry, Louis A ^a  

^a Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

BIF; oxygen; phosphorous; Proterozoic; vivianite

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS; PHOSPHATE MINERALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EXPORT PRODUCTION; KEYPOINTS; LOW OXYGEN; PHOSPHORITE DEPOSITS; PHOSPHOROUS; PROTEROZOIC; TIME-SCALES; VIVIANITE;

IRON DEPOSITS;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; DEPOSITION; IRON; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORITE; PROTEROZOIC; REDOX CONDITIONS; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; VIVIANITE;

EID: 84946593177     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065333     Document Type: Article

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