Does fossil pigment and DNA data from Mediterranean sediments invalidate the use of green sulfur bacterial pigments and their diagenetic derivatives as proxies for the assessment of past photic zone euxinia?

Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Ellen C. Hopmans

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1392-1399
Number of pages8
JournalEnvironmental Microbiology
Volume10
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2008

Keywords

  • Water column structure
  • Black-sea
  • Molecular indicators
  • Organic-matter
  • Enhanced productivity
  • Sapropel formation
  • Biomarker evidence
  • Pliocene sapropel
  • African monsoon
  • Deposition

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