Passive margin uplifts and their influence on climatic change and weathering patterns of tropical shield regions

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 18, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 47-57

  Gunnell, Yanni ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE GÉOGRAPHIE PHYSIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Brazil; Climate change; India; Passive margin uplift; Weathering; West Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031805758     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8181(98)00034-4     Document Type: Article

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