Another continental pool in the terrestrial silicon cycle

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7024, 2005, Pages 399-402

  Basile Doelsch, Isabelle ^a,b   Meunier, Jean Dominique ^b   Parron, Claude ^b  

^a LSTUR   (France)

^b CEREGE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; SANDSTONE; SECONDARY ION MASS SPECTROMETRY; SILICATES; VEGETATION; WEATHERING;

PHYTOPLANKTONS; SILICON ISOTOPES; SILICON RESERVOIRS; TERRESTRIAL SILICON CYCLE;

SILICON;

RIVER WATER; SEA WATER; SILICON;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; FRANCE; LAND BIOME; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SAND; VEGETATION; WEATHERING;

CLIMATE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIATOMS; FRANCE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; ISOTOPES; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRECIPITATION; QUARTZ; SILICON; WATER;

EID: 13444291212     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03217     Document Type: Article

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