Transient episodes of mild environmental oxygenation and oxidative continental weathering during the late Archean

Science Advances

Volumn 1, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Kendall, Brian ^a   Creaser, Robert A ^b   Reinhard, Christopher T ^c   Lyons, Timothy W ^d   Anbar, Ariel D ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLYBDENUM; OIL SHALE; OSMIUM; OXYGENATION; SEAWATER; SHALE; WEATHERING;

ARCHEAN; BLACK SHALES; CONTINENTAL FLUX; GREAT OXIDATION EVENT; OSMIUM ISOTOPES; OXYGENIC PHOTOSYNTHESIS; UPPER CONTINENTAL CRUST; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

RHENIUM;

EID: 84979593169     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23752548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1500777     Document Type: Article

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