Terrestrial sedimentation and the carbon cycle: Coupling weathering and erosion to carbon burial

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 231-257

  Stallard, Robert F ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON BURIAL; CARBON CYCLE; EROSION; WEATHERING;

EID: 0031698218     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GB00741     Document Type: Article

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