Burning buried sunshine: Human consumption of ancient solar energy

Climatic Change

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 31-44

  Dukes, Jeffrey S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FOSSIL FUELS; GASOLINE; SOLAR ENERGY;

ORGANIC MATERIALS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; ENERGY RESOURCE; FOSSIL FUEL; RESOURCE DEPLETION; SOLAR POWER;

CELLULAR ORGANISMS;

EID: 0345531107     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026391317686     Document Type: Article

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