Basalt weathering laws and the impact of basalt weathering on the global carbon cycle

Chemical Geology

Volumn 202, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 257-273

  Dessert, Céline ^a   Dupré, Bernard ^a   Gaillardet, Jérôme ^b   François, Louis M ^c   Allègre, Claude J ^b  

^a Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Basalt; Chemical weathering; Climate; Rivers

Indexed keywords

BASALT; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; STREAMWATER; WATER CHEMISTRY; WEATHERING;

EID: 0037788352     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2002.10.001     Document Type: Article

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