Global modelling of continent formation and destruction through geological time and implications for CO 2 drawdown in the Archaean Eon

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 199, Issue , 2002, Pages 259-274

  Kramers, Jan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; DRAWDOWN; PALEOATMOSPHERE;

ARCHAEA;

EID: 0037002388     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2002.199.01.13     Document Type: Article

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