Sulfur Biogeochemistry - Past and Present (GSA Special Paper 379)

Cover......Page 1
Sulfur Biogeochemistry—Past and Present......Page 2
ISBN 0-8137-2379-5......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
Physiological and ecological aspects of sulfur isotope fractionation
during bacterial sulfate reduction......Page 10
Microbially mediated sulfur-redox: Energetics in marine
hydrothermal vent systems......Page 26
Eukaryotes of the Cariaco, Soledad, and Santa Barbara Basins: Protists and metazoans associated with deep-water marine sulfide-oxidizing microbial mats and their possible effects on the geologic record......Page 44
Biogeochemistry of metal sulfide oxidation in mining environments, sediments, and soils......Page 58
Sulfide oxidation in marine sediments: Geochemistry meets microbiology......Page 72
Formation and degradation of seafloor hydrothermal sulfi de deposits......Page 92
Distribution and fate of sulfur intermediates—sulfite, tetrathionate,
thiosulfate, and elemental sulfur—in marine sediments......Page 106
Mechanisms of sedimentary pyrite formation......Page 126
Organic sulfur biogeochemistry:
Recent advances and future research directions......Page 144
Using sulfur isotopes to elucidate the origin of barite associated with
high organic matter accumulation events in marine sediments......Page 160
Sites of anomalous organic remineralization in the
carbonate sediments of South Florida, USA:
The sulfur cycle and carbonate-associated sulfate......Page 170
The sulfur isotope composition of carbonate-associated sulfate
in Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic carbonates from
Death Valley, California......Page 186
4 Ga of seawater evolution: Evidence from the sulfur isotopic
composition of sulfate......Page 204
Cover (back)......Page 216