Using Zn and Ni behavior during magnetite precipitation in banded iron formations to determine its biological or abiotic origin

TY - JOUR

T1 - Using Zn and Ni behavior during magnetite precipitation in banded iron formations to determine its biological or abiotic origin

AU - Han, Xiaohua

AU - Tomaszewski, Elizabeth J.

AU - Schoenberg, Ronny

AU - Konhauser, Kurt O.

AU - Amor, Matthieu

AU - Pan, Yongxin

AU - Warter, Viola

AU - Kappler, Andreas

AU - Byrne, James M.

N1 - Funding Information: This research was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under grant no. KA 1736/39-1 . We would like to thank several people for their assistance and contributions to this manuscript. Ellen Röhm for assisting with TOC analyses, as well as general laboratory assistance, Natalia Jakus for XRD sample preparation and measurements, Bernd Steinhilber for trace elements analyses, Lars Grimm for assisting with bacteria incubation, Julian Sorwat and Manuel Schad for Mössbauer spectroscopy measurements and spectra fitting. Y.P. and X.H. were supported by a grant of the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 41621004 ). Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Elsevier B.V.

PY - 2021/8/15

Y1 - 2021/8/15

UR - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117052

U2 - 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117052

DO - 10.1016/j.epsl.2021.117052

M3 - Article (Academic Journal)

VL - 568

JO - Earth and Planetary Science Letters

JF - Earth and Planetary Science Letters

SN - 0012-821X

M1 - 117052

ER -