Extensive and rapid changes in seawater chemistry during the Phanerozoic: Evidence from Br contents in basal halite

Terra Nova

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 243-248

  Siemann, Michael G ^a  

^a CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMINE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; HALITE; PHANEROZOIC; SEAWATER; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0041827241     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3121.2003.00490.x     Document Type: Article

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