Secular variation in seawater chemistry: An explanation for the coupled secular variation in the mineralogies of marine limestones and potash evaporites over the past 600 m.y.

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 279-283

  Hardie, Lawrence A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; LIME; LIMESTONE; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; POTASH; SEAWATER;

EVAPORITES; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; OCEAN CRUST; QUANTITATIVE PREDICTION; SEAWATER CHEMISTRY; SECULAR CHANGES; SECULAR VARIATION; TIME-SCALES;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

EVAPORITE; LIMESTONE; MINERALOGY; PALEOMAGNETISM; POTASH; PRECAMBRIAN; SEAWATER; SECULAR VARIATION; WATER CHEMISTRY; CARBONATE;

EID: 0029776172     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0279:SVISCA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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