Iron and brimstone

Philip Newton

Nature, 1998, vol. 396, issue 6710, 414-414

Abstract: So-called banded iron formations are a dramatic feature of some Precambrian rocks. They are generally thought to be the result of episodic oxygenation of deep oceanic waters, which resulted in the precipitation and deposition of iron. An alternative explanation has it instead that the depths of the oceans did not become aerobic until comparatively late in Earth's history, and that earlier banded iron formations stemmed from the precipitation of iron as a sulphide.

Date: 1998
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