Response to Comment on "Early Archaean Microorganisms Preferred Elemental Sulfur, Not Sulfate"

P. Philippot (1) , M. van Zuilen (1) , K. Lepot (2) , C. Thomazo (1) , J. Farquhar (3) , M. van Kranendonk (4)

1 IPGP - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
2 IPGP (UMR_7154) - Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
3 University of Maryland [College Park]
4 GSWA - Geological Survey of Western Australia

Our knowledge of the sulfur cycle on early Earth is still in its infancy. Nevertheless, there exist enough geochemical constraints from the rock record to show that the theoretical mixing models proposed by Bao et al. are highly unlikely to account for the range of d34S and D33S values recorded for the microscopic sulfides at the North Pole

Domaines: Planète et Univers [physics]

P. Philippot, M. van Zuilen, K. Lepot, C. Thomazo, J. Farquhar, et al.. Response to Comment on "Early Archaean Microorganisms Preferred Elemental Sulfur, Not Sulfate". Science, 2008, 319 (5868), pp.1336c-1336c. ⟨10.1126/science.1151414⟩. ⟨insu-02525845⟩