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Earliest microbially mediated pyrite oxidation in ~3.4 billion-year-old sediments
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Pyrite (FeS2) oxidation in modern sedimentary environments is neither a purely chemical nor purely microbial process, but it is significantly enhanced by the activity of microorganisms that use reduced forms of iron and sulphur in their metabolisms. On the early Earth, where oxygen levels were thought to be <10-5 of the present atmospheric level and chemical oxidants scarce, such biological mediation may have been critical in the redox cycles of iron and sulphur. Here, we show that detrita...
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- Journal:
- Earth and Planetary Science Letters
- Volume:
- 301
- Issue:
- 1-2
- Pages:
- 393-402
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-03
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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0012-821X
- Source identifiers:
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110362
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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- pubs:110362
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- 2011
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