Publisher Correction: Pelagic barite precipitation at micromolar ambient sulfate.

The original version of this Article contained an error in the barite saturation state equation in the fourth paragraph of the Introduction and incorrectly read 'Ω=({Ba}⋅{SO})/K)'. The correct version removes the superscript 134 next to 'Ba'. This error has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article.

Pelagic barite precipitation at micromolar ambient sulfate.

Geochemical analyses of sedimentary barites (barium sulfates) in the geological record have yielded fundamental insights into the chemistry of the Archean environment and evolutionary origin of microbial metabolisms. However, the question of how barites were able to precipitate from a contemporary ocean that contained only trace amounts of sulfate remains controversial. Here we report dissolved and particulate multi-element and barium-isotopic data from Lake Superior that evidence pelagic barite precipitation at micromolar ambient sulfate.