Organic carbon burial forcing of the carbon cycle from himalayan erosion

Nature

Volumn 390, Issue 6655, 1997, Pages 65-67

  France Lanord, Christian ^a,b   Derry, Louis A ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; SILICATE;

BURIAL; CAINOZOIC; CARBON CYCLE; EROSION; ORGANIC CARBON; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOGEOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; EROSION; INDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENT;

EID: 0030693985     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/36324     Document Type: Article

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