Continuously increasing δ98Mo values in Neoarchean black shales and iron formations from the Hamersley Basin

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 164, Issue , 2015, Pages 523-542

  Kurzweil, Florian ^a   Wille, Martin ^a   Schoenberg, Ronny ^a   Taubald, Heinrich ^a   Van Kranendonk, Martin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; BLACK SHALE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; GEOCHEMISTRY; IRON; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN ISOTOPE;

AUSTRALIA; GRIQUALAND WEST BASIN; HAMERSLEY BASIN; NORTHERN CAPE; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

CROCODYLUS NILOTICUS;

EID: 85027924196     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2015.05.009     Document Type: Article

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